[time-nuts] 60Hz More or Less

[Attila Kinali]

On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 07:18:18 -0700
Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> John Strong's book on making stuff ("procedures in experimental 
> physics") probably has a lot of the details (like how they put the 
> reflective coating on the mirror).  That book is a fascinating look at 
> state of the art in the early part of the 20th century (you want to make 
> your own Geiger-Muller tubes... it's in there).  Every physics/lab 
> tinkerer should have a copy (it's cheap in paperback from Lindsay books 
> (http://www.lindsaybks.com/... don't know if they still have it), or 
> probably Amazon, too)(just checked amazon.. $35 for used??? what are 
> they thinking)

Oh.. 35USD isnt that bad... The book "The Quantum Physics of Atomic
Frequency Standards" by Vanier and Audoin has been out of print for
a while now. You're lucky to find any used book at all (and the price
is usally in the hundreds of USD). But, you can buy the PDFs of the
scanned book from the publisher... for just 750USD (i'm not joking!)
And those PDFs are simple scans, no OCR and no correction of typos
or anything.

Fortunately, if you have access to an large university library, they might
have an account with CRC Press and you can download the PDFs for free.

			Attila Kinali

-- 
Why does it take years to find the answers to
the questions one should have asked long ago?