Re: Book Review

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

Many thanks to Chip and Terry for getting the list
working again.

> Several weeks ago Antonio posted mention of a textbook,
>  Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration. The download is
>  available at 
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>  http://www.fieldp-dot-com/.
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>  The text is highly mathematical. The math is deep and well beyond the
>  average coiler. But  the text is well written and offers many pages of 
> theory
>  for anyone interested in the electrical sciences. There are sections on 
Van 
> DeGraff and Marx generators.  Especially interesting are the chapters on 
the 
> properties of electric and magnetic fields. There are many graphs, and the 
> extensive use of vector notation makes for a good refresher on that subject 
> alone. The diagrams of various types of particle accelerators are 
fascinating 
> to study. There is a bibliography, a complete table of contents, and a 
> detailed index. 
>  
>  It took my printer many hours and nearly a full ink cartridge to klunk out 
> the
>  600 pages that now fill 2 volumes of 3-ring notebooks. This is an advanced 
>  text of very high quality; it is worth the time of a lengthy printing. 
>  
>  Happy day,
>  Ralph Zekelman
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