Free Charged Particle Texts

Chuut-Riit writes "Go here to download free PDF format copies of the out-of-print texts "Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration" and "Charged Particle Beams" by Stanley Humphries. Evidently a company called Field Precision and Los Alamos Laboratories are making these available."

Re:SOMEONE

[Lord Bitman]

You're so cool you could keep a slab of meat in you for a week.

It seems someone has taken the advice...

Re:Wow, nice tool for terrorist.

[Simon Field]

About as useful as the Plastic Hydrogen Bomb [scitoys.com].

OSR

[Cyno01]

OMG, is that the Carbon Rod?!?

Excellent

[Simon Field]

The more free science books on the web, the better!

This one looks particulary nice. It may not be that accessible to novices, but it is authoritative, and the price (my tax dollars at work) looks good.

Re:Excellent

[GigsVT]

Do you know about the free electronics text book?

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/inde x. htm

Blatent plug: It's also linked on the "links" page of my electronicschat.org site.

The Free movement chugs along

[mnmn]

This release of intellectual property sounds a lot like MIT's OpenCourseWare [mit.edu]. Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain). After all, this would be better than rotting in libraries.

These free releases have bigger implications than it might first seem. Its competition value will push the quality of future text (unless say, its an obsolete text on pre-Quantum Mechanics physics in 1910s language). Such releases should also popularize the author.

Now I'll get back to my project of Home Cyclotron...

I believe in time bombs

[yerricde]

Hopefully future publishers will start the timebomb license: This book is copyrighted till 2005, after which it becomes completely free (public domain).

This is how copyright initially worked in common-law countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom: a 14-year copyright, and possibly a 14-year renewal term if the author is still alive and thinks it's worth it, then PD. This promotes the progress of knowledge by giving the author a chance to make a return on investment of effort into a work in exchange for letting the public make unlimited use of a work after a short time. But over the last two centuries, the apparent influence of French [www.sacd.fr] "right of author" (not to mention that of DisneyCo) has corrupted the system to the point where it is today, where copyright doesn't expire for two lifetimes, and the copyright owner keeps 99.8 percent [yahoo.com] of the value of the work, giving almost nothing to the public.

I believe in time bombs.

Make up your damn mind!

[Alsee]

Free Charged Particle Texts

Well which is it? Are they free or charged?

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reviews

[bcrowell]

Reveiws on The Assayer [theassayer.org] would be greatly appreciated.

I already got one.

[jericho4.0]

I'm all for freely distubuted works, but this seems like the kind of thing that if you could use it, you already have it. I don't think there are many students struggling to get their reactor finished, but cant afford the textbook.

Re:I already got one.

[Radish03]

I'm only a high school senior, but I plan to study physics when I get to college, and my goal is to work towards a doctorate. I figure by the time I've learned enough to read through these texts, I'll have a pretty hard time finding copies of them, so I'm downloading them now to stick in my archive of useful stuff for later reading.

Great to see

[setiyeti]

The more we make science books available, the more people can learn and maybe make a contribution back to their chosen field of study one day.

Great to see.

Sleepless here

[Varkoth]

I first read this as "Free of Charge, Particle Texts". But overall i think it's a good idea. even better if I read it right