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Direct linkSharpe, J. P. – Physics Teacher, 2022
The Poisson distribution describes the probability of a certain number of events occurring in an interval of time when the occurrence of the individual events is independent of one another and the events occur with a fixed mean rate. Probably the best-known example of the Poisson distribution in the physics curriculum is the temporal distribution…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Probability, Mathematics Skills
