Experimental Physics

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!

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.

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.