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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."
About as useful as the Plastic Hydrogen Bomb.
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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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Free Charged Particle Texts
Well which is it? Are they free or charged?
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
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.
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