Modern Physics Learning Activities

Supplier: PHYWE

A fog chamber from the well-known physics company PHYWE is the given focus of many exhibitions. Every day, thousands of visitors to technical museums, art museums, nuclear power plant information centers, universities and colleges are fascinated by these fog chambers that make the invisible background radiation visible. PHYWE has been developing and manufacturing these unique devices for more than 20 years. In total, there are more than 200 in operation in more than 40 countries. The fog chamber makes the invisible visible. Every second you can observe a large number of traces that originate from both cosmic radiation and the earth's natural radioactivity. The appearance of the trace immediately reveals the type of particle that has just passed. During normal operation, no additional preparation is used. If you want to increase the activity in the surface, you can blow in a thorium isotope.