IB Physics SL E 3 10 Radiation Penetration and Ionization Topic Practice

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An experiment is carried out to determine the count rate, corrected for background radiation, when different thicknesses of copper are placed between a radioactive source and a detector. The graph shows the variation of corrected count rate with copper thickness.

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Further results were obtained in this experiment with copper and lead absorbers.

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Comment on the radiation detected from this radioactive source.

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