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Build Your Own Cyclotron

Posted by michael on from the popcorn-not-included dept.

mindpixel writes "Physics Today is running a story about Tim Koeth's 12 inch cyclotron. Here's a quote that says it all: 'I was sitting in Tom Devlin's modern physics lecture. He described the principle of the cyclotron. He said it required a lot of RF power. I was--and am--a ham radio operator, so RF was no problem. It needed a big magnet; I knew I could find one of those. How tough could a vacuum system and chamber be?'"

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  1. "The Amateur Scientist:" by Stiletto · · Score: 0, Redundant


    Would someone please talk about Scientific American's "The Amateur Scientist" column again? Mentioning it only ten or twenty times just wasn't enough for me.

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