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| Jun 26, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | hmakholm left over Monica | (+1) In particular, the classroom demonstration where you hear a GM tube produce discrete clicks that you can count by ear is rather far from the usual working conditions. A single particle is nothing as far as radiation safety goes; you want to be able to measure so many that some of the clicks may arrive too close together to register separately with a naive digital counter. So you want at least to know how your input circuits respond in the analog domain to such clumping so you can correct for it later. | |
| Jun 26, 2018 at 14:35 | history | answered | WhatRoughBeast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |