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Procedures in Experimental Physics

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Do you like scientific notebooks? I do. My first one was a book that I bought from Radio Shack called "The Engineers Notebook". It was packed with tables, schematics, drawings and explaniatory text. There was just enough information there to make something happen, and start you on your way towards understanding the science involved. Gosh, I love Scientific Notebooks.

This is a classic notebook, by a scientist who was tutored in the basics of draftings. Thus it is well written, and beautifully illustrated. It is wonderful. It is the kind of book that you could pick up and open a page, and dream about making your own X-Ray machine...or maybe a portable backyard radio telescope.

Buy this one for your children. If you have a son who is pre-teen to teenage, let him imagine and explore the world around him. Let him take this book and dream the dreams of great men.

I design satellites. When a fresh college graduate starts working with me, I always loan him my copy of this book with instructions to pay special attention to kinematic mounts and spectroscopy. Much of the book is just fun because it's so, so, dated. More than half of the book is useful today because it clearly explains how things work. This is a classic practical engineering book.

Disons le: ce livre est la principale source d'inspiration qui a conduit J.Texereau à écrire son livre "la construction du télescope d'amateur" si on y ajoute celui du révérend Ellison. Il y a d'autres sujets, comme le soufflage de verre et les techniques du vide, l'aluminiure. Accessoirement rappelons que c'est J.Strong qui a proposé aux US les techniques de traitement AR, c'est dire le calibre du gus ! Mais il y a plein de sujets intéressant, entre autre un outil particulier pour faire des lames de Schmidt avec miroir très ouvert... Pas cher et il vaut vraiment le coût et le coup.

Charles Rydel

If you've ever wanted to know how to build a quartz fibre torsion balance or how to build a high vacuum chamber (and how to do the seals on the cheap), then this is the book for you! This book is not only well writen but it's also packed full of very useful and sometimes (in todays world) hard to find info. Enjoy with care!

This book is a 1986 reprint, of excellent visual quality. The drawings are worth the price alone! Line art carrying pure information, as simple as that.
Quoting from the preface:"It is the purpose of this book to describe important procedures in experimental physics.". And the book does just that, even if some of what was cutting edge physics then is now hobby level activity. This does not take away from the usefulness of the book, but instead make it even more valuable to the amateur who realize new materials and old knowledge are fun to mix! Lots of tricks and tips and pointers, some I wish I had a few years back...
Chapter list, to turn you on:
I. Fundamental operations in laboratory glass blowing; II. Laboratory optical work; III. Technique of high vacuum; IV. Coating of surfaces: Evaporation and sputtering; V. The use of fused silica; VI. Electrometers and electroscopes; VII. Geiger counters; VIII. Vacuum thermopiles and the measurement of radiant energy; IX. Optics: Light sources, filters, and optical instruments; X. Photoelectric cells and amplifiers; XI. Photography in the laboratory; XII. Heat and high temperature; XIII. Notes on the material of research; XIV. Notes on the construction and design of instruments and apparatus; XV. Molding and casting.
Another "must have" for the library of scientists and engineers, amateur or not. If you lend it, be prepared to have to buy another one.