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Do you have to know which radiation type are you measuring with a geiger counter to correctly estimate the equivalent dose rate?
Yes, you need to the know radiation type to
calculate the biological harm $H$ from the measured dose $D$.
From Equivalent dose - Calculation:
$$H=\sum_R W_R D_R$$
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$H$ is the equivalent dose in ...
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Temperature is discrete but not countable?
I think you have misunderstood the comment to the original question. It is not saying that temperature is a discrete attribute. It is saying that temperature is an example of an attribute that can be ...
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Temperature is discrete but not countable?
Physical variables are almost never discrete, but rather continuous (although some discontinuities in Physical systems may exist). Same for the temperature,- it's from the real number domain $T \in [0;...
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Temperature is discrete but not countable?
In mathematics, the cardinality of a set is a measure of the number of elements of the set. For example, the set contains 3 elements, and therefore. has a cardinality of 3.
Temperature T is an ...
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Understanding uncertainty calculations?
\begin{align*}
(x_1+\Delta x_1)\times (x_2+\Delta x_2) &= x_1x_2\left (1+\frac{\Delta x_1}{x_1}\right)\left (1+\frac{\Delta x_2}{x_2}\right ) \\ &= x_1x_2\left (1+\frac{\Delta x_1}{x_1}+\frac{\...
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Understanding uncertainty calculations?
This is more of an Algebraic problem, but since it relates to measurements I suppose it does have some bearing on Physics.
Let's generalize your problem a bit, let's call the two measured values $m_1$ ...
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Why does one need a low resolution when trying to tell $|0\rangle^{\otimes n}$ and $|1\rangle^{\otimes n}$ apart in a coarse grained measurement?
To get more intuition about what is happening, let's start with $n=1$.
(n=1)
The observable $S_z$ you defined will be just $S_z=\sigma_z$ and we have
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S_z = \left | 0 \right \rangle \left \langle 0 \...
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Least count of Vernier
The formula LC=MSD-VSD is only valid for vernier calipers having n VSD = n-1 MSD.
The second formula LC=MSD/n I do not have a clue about but it might be that if n VSD =m MSD and m and n are coprime ...
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Is wavefunction collapse “global”?
Yes, wave function collapse is global in the sense that you mean, though I would use the word "objective" instead of "global". The measurements that have been performed and their ...
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What is the shortest controllable time?
It seems that we reached zeptosecond controllable time in 2021:
Using transient magnons, Physicists have tuned the quantum phase of a quantum system embedded in a solid with a precision of 1 zs and a ...
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