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Post by jasong on Feb 17, 2014 18:46:33 GMT -6
I thought I would open this up to anyone who may have ideas. If you haven't already, read my thread about what a "Cloud Chamber" is. The nice thing about this project is that after it's built we can continuously use it for experimentation. It will be most efficient to do as many experiments at a time as we can (as we'll have to buy dry ice each time). Deposit ideas here, they can be an actual hypothesis, or as simple as "I wonder what would happen if we...?"
So far I have: - Observe the effect of magnetic fields on the cosmic ray nuclei
- Observe what materials the cosmic rays can penetrate (metal, wood, plastic, rubber)
- use Feynman diagrams to decode the tracks made by the rays, telling us what type of specific particle is decaying along the way.
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Post by greenb on Feb 17, 2014 19:02:33 GMT -6
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Post by greenb on Feb 17, 2014 19:36:18 GMT -6
Alright, lets try something different. What would happen if the cloud chamber was inside of a faraday cage? Would the particle deposition change? better yet, what would happen if the cloud chamber was inside of a leyden jar. Would the massive amount of stored electrons effect particle deposition?
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Post by jasong on Feb 17, 2014 20:33:25 GMT -6
Well, remember all particles with electromagnetic charge and mass will react with the vapor in the chamber - So both a faraday cage and a leyden jar would distort the vapor to such a degree that we would no longer see any particles due to too many free electrons flying around. Good ideas though, and I'd love to play around with a faraday cage if I ever got a chance.
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Post by greenb on Feb 17, 2014 20:56:41 GMT -6
hmmm, I wonder what we would see under a blacklight
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Post by PatrickG on Feb 18, 2014 1:28:16 GMT -6
I'm interested in the material tests, would be cool to see what and how much of it can stop them (if at all!).
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