MIT OpenCourseWare
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Geiger Counters
Art: Not determined, Figure 7 of Radio-active substances, 1904 · Public domain
- Instructors
- Prof. Michael Short, Mark Chilenski, Matthew D'Asaro
- Term
- January IAP 2015
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 4 problem sets · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 14 other files · 9 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 22.S902 Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Geiger Counters, January IAP 2015, Prof. Michael Short, Mark Chilenski, Matthew D'Asaro — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
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- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely. (14 items)
- Referenced in a table, but without MIT's own verified order, so it isn't used to claim a sequence.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Readings
Lecture Notes
- Lecture 1: Radiation Basics; Radiation Energetics Download
- Lecture 2: Geiger Tube Theory, Dead Time Download
- Lecture 3: Shielding and Range; Radiation Protection Download
- Lecture 2 Powerpoint: Geiger Tube Theory, Dead Time Download
Assignments
- Problem Set 1: Radiation Download
- Problem Set 2: Geiger Counters and Dead Time Download
- Problem Set 3: Shielding Download
- Data for Problem Set 2, Problem 4 Download
9 images
- Photo of assembled electronic board within a clear plastic case Open ↗
- Photo of parts laid out on a table: plastic case, screws and fittings, Geiger Muller tube, 9V… Open ↗
- Photo of a classroom with 3 rectangular tables, 11 students seated around them, soldering and… Open ↗
- Photo of two students at a work table, one in the foreground preparing to solder a device into a… Open ↗
- 6-811_classroom-1.jpg Open ↗
- 6-811_classroom-2.JPG Open ↗
- 22-S09_stat-students.png Open ↗
- 22-S902_classroom-1.jpg Open ↗
- 22-S902_classroom-2.jpg Open ↗
Labs
9 files
- Bottom View Drawing Download
- Top View Drawing Download
- Build your own Geiger-Müller counter Download
- Lab Description and Report Download
- Geiger Counter Schematic Diagram Download
- MIT DIY Geiger Counter bill of materials Download
- Bill of Materials (file 1 of 2) Download
- Gerber files Download
- MIT NSE Geiger Data Collection Program (Courtesy of Matthew D’Asaro. Used with permission.) Download
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Michael Short, Mark Chilenski, Matthew D'Asaro, 22.S902 Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Geiger Counters, January IAP 2015.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: January IAP 2015 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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