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Free Charged Particle Texts

Posted by timothy on from the simply-shocking dept.

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."

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  1. The Free movement chugs along by mnmn · · Score: 3, Insightful


    This release of intellectual property sounds a lot like MIT's OpenCourseWare. 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...

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    "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you." -Nim Chimpsky
  2. Great to see by setiyeti · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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.