Balloon Fest

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Balloon Fest

• Team Ballair
• Andrew, John, Valerie, Bailey, Kindsay

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What is it?
Our balloon has an equipped radiation monitor,
Geiger counter, in the gondola. We are trying to
measure radiation from all directions as we
increase in altitude.
Beep!
Beep!
Beep!
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Whats it Do?
When a particle enters the Geiger counter,
the information is sent through a
cord to the TI-83 calculator we also have on
board.
This
records the count, and averages them over a given
period of time, and even graphs the data for us!
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What will happen?

• We believe that the radiation will increase with
  altitude.
• Test Before when we did our test we were only
  able to move up 60 meters so the radiation was
  not very high. We noticed that there was a slight
  change in radiation as we increased in altitude.

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Conclusion

• Our hypothesis was wrong. There was more
  altitude on the ground than in the sky. However
  we learned that if we were able to go much higher
  than 1000 feet we would have seen more of a
  difference in our data. Thank you to everyone who
  helped us succeed in getting succ
• essful tests.

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Logger Pro Graph