Experiments on Radioactivity in a Virtual Laboratory

TL;DR

This paper presents a virtual laboratory platform for physics experiments, specifically on radioactivity, providing an accessible online alternative when real labs are unavailable.

Contribution

It introduces a Java Applet-based virtual environment for conducting physics experiments on radioactivity accessible via the web.

Findings

Enables remote experiments on radioactivity

Offers a cost-effective alternative to physical labs

Demonstrates feasibility of virtual physics experiments

Abstract

This paper shows how to run some experiments of physics, using a virtual laboratory. Such a laboratory is a website, equipped with objects to be measured and measuring instruments, simulated by means of Java Applets. Here we discuss in particular the case of a laboratory in which we can perform, on the Web, some experiments on radioactivity. The proposed virtual environment can be a viable alternative in the case of unavailability of a real laboratory.