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Nuclear Training Services Ltd.Resources for Students |
CompAct Virtual Spectrometer | This is an autoinstalling compressed file. Dowload it into your Course folder, click on its icon in the folder and it will automatically install into the c:\CompAct folder. | compactinstall.exe (1.4MB) |
| The Virtual Spectrometer is version 4 of CompAct, for which the manual has not yet been prepared. Version 3 manual is available in the meantime. This covers all matters other than the counting facilities. |
Version 3 manual.exe self-install (367kB) Version 3 manual.pdf (653kB) List of CompAct control keystrokes (11kb) | |
Graph Papers | Download and print from any suitable application. We've had most success printing from the Powerpoint file. |
linear.wmf (34kB) .htm (33kB) 2 cyle log by linear.wmf (36kB) .htm (36kB) 3 cyle log by 3 cyle log.wmf (55kB) .wmf (36kB) All in Powerpoint 4 file (89kB) |
Fonts | All pages on our site use the Verdana fonts for clarity and the Symbol font for the greek and mathematical symbols. | Zipped File (374 kB) Microsoft Fonts |
| These fonts are usually installed automatically with both Netscape and Microsoft browsers. However, if you do not have them on your machine either follow the link above to the Microsoft site and download them or download a ZIP file with the four fonts necessary. Extract them into a suitable folders and then use 'Start/Settings/Control Panel/Fonts' to install them. | ||
Data | Nuclear and Other Constants | constants.htm (6kB) |
| List of chemical element in order of Z, name and symbol. | elementlist.htm (18kB) | |
| List of principle X-ray and edge energies in htm and Excel format. | xrayenergies.htm (14kB) xrayenergies.xls (39kB) | |
| Atomic masses, mass defects, beta decay energies, including decay energy calculator. | atomic_masses.xls (997 kB) | |
| Background Peaks | background.xls Spreadsheet(31 kB) backgd.htm (21 kB) | |
| Ordered Gamma-Ray List | orderedlist.htm (83 kB) | |
Course Spreadsheets | Spreadsheet containing assistance with some exercises, list of background spectrum peaks, ordered list of gamma-rays and nuclide list (each with a search function.) | course-sheet.xls (544 kB) |
| Scintillation Spectrum Fitting Simulation | nai-lsa.xls (21 kB) | |
Decay and Counting Statistics Simulators | Decay calculations, number of decays per unit mass. Shows interrelation between activity, mass and number of atoms. Calculates decay over a period and correction for decay during counting. | decay.xls (39kB) |
| Spreadsheet to plot decay data and least squares fit to derive half-life | decayfit.xls (23kb) | |
| Spreadsheet to calculate mean, standard deviation and chi-squared of a group of counts. | chisquared.xls (18kb) | |
| Simulated count demonstration. Demonstrates the variability of individual counts. Plots frequency distribution of up to 300 simulated counts relative to the underlying Normal distribution. | countstats.xls (233 kB) | |
| A DOS program which simulates counting, plotting in real time each count as it occurs. Download into suitable directory and run from there. Needs no resources. | countsimulator.exe (31kB) | |
| Word and Excel files were saved in version 97 format, Powerpoint file in version 4 format. | ||
Links to Information on the 'net | IAEA TECDOC-619 data | www.nucleartraining.co.uk/iaea |
| A Glossary of Nuclear Terms | ie.lbl.gov/education/glossary/glossaryf.htm | |
| Decay Energy (Q-value) calculator | nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/database/masses | |
| Periodic Table Link to Nuclear Data | ie.lbl.gov/education/isotope.htm | |
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