[time-nuts] temperature stability basics

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Fri Nov 26 16:24:57 UTC 2010


Worse. Those books will start you thinking about home brew H MASERS. T^hey
make UHV seem doable.

-John

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> John Strong's "Procedures in Experimental Physics" has a section on
> thermal design (for furnaces and ovens), and is worth having a copy of.'
> Moore, et.al., "building scientific apparatus" is another winner, and
> has a whole chapter on precision temperature control
>
> (I have to warn you.. get these two books, and you'll contemplate, or
> worse, actually start, a whole raft of really interesting things to do.
>   Everyone needs a duoplasmatron ion source, don't they? Or a 6 foot
> tall Geiger-Muller tube made from copper pipe and mixing bowls.)
>
>
> And, as you get better insulation, heat leaks (whether conducted by,
> say, the wires, or by air, or by IR radiation) become a bigger relative
> problem.





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