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Posted by Phil Hobbs on July 19, 2008, 1:22 am
Please log in for more thread options > One classic is Knoll, Radiation Detection and Measurement.
That's radiation as in alpha, beta, and gamma, I take it?
> I'm not a fan of Terman. He was pompous, and mean to the Varian
> brothers. He's safely dead now, though. Of course, they are too. I know Terman's son Lew slightly. > Roger the two Williams books.
Hadn't heard of it, but I ordered it from the library.
> > Tuma, Handbook of Physical Calculations. >
That one's in the library's reference section. I'll have to go look at
> Dorf/CRC, The EE Handbook, good complement to Ref Data for Radio > Engineers. it on Monday. >
Okay, that's on my list to look at.
> The Williams+Taylor filter book is a must-have. >
I didn't like this one much, but I'll have another look. It's around
> Dotto Lancaster, Active Filter Cookbook. here somewhere. >
> Smith, The Scientists and Engr's Guide to DSP, readable by mere > mortals. They don't have that one, but it's available for download at http://www.dspguide.com, so I'll have a look at it. >
Good for the soul, of course, but still useful for electro-optics folk?
> And everyone should have and read the RadLab books. > > Pozar, Microwave Engineering. > And the soon-to-be classic, Larkin, Electronics from Scratch.
Just scratch, or Old Scratch? ;) Sounds like an amazing book already. Thanks, Phil Hobbs | ||||
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Posted by John Larkin on July 19, 2008, 1:51 am
Please log in for more thread options >John Larkin wrote:
> > >> One classic is Knoll, Radiation Detection and Measurement.
>That's radiation as in alpha, beta, and gamma, I take it?
Yup. Has some good stuff on electronics, like charge amps and such. Some of the pileup issues might relate to photon counting maybe. So many photons, so little time. >
>> I'm not a fan of Terman. He was pompous, and mean to the Varian
>> brothers. >
>He's safely dead now, though. Of course, they are too. I know Terman's >son Lew slightly. > >> Roger the two Williams books.
>> >> Tuma, Handbook of Physical Calculations. >Hadn't heard of it, but I ordered it from the library.
Not heavy stuff, but handy to have around. >
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>> Dorf/CRC, The EE Handbook, good complement to Ref Data for Radio >> Engineers. >That one's in the library's reference section. I'll have to go look at
>it on Monday. > >>
>> The Williams+Taylor filter book is a must-have. >Okay, that's on my list to look at.
> >>
>> Dotto Lancaster, Active Filter Cookbook. >I didn't like this one much, but I'll have another look. It's around
>here somewhere. It's good for quickie filter stuff; hardly Pride and Prejudice. John | ||||
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Posted by AES on July 19, 2008, 11:07 am
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> > I'm not a fan of Terman. He was pompous, and mean to the Varian
> > brothers. >
> He's safely dead now, though. Of course, they are too. I know Terman's > son Lew slightly. > Wait, wait! I decided to pass over these assertions about Terman the first time around, since they seemed so off the wall, not to mention irrelevant to the subject under discussion. But as someone who's been in the heart of Terman's academic and technical milieu for 54 years now, has interacted with innumerable people who were close to Terman (and had some direct comment with him myself), and has a continuing interest in the development and the history of this whole era, I've never heard or read anything to support statements like those above. | ||||
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Posted by Phil Hobbs on July 19, 2008, 12:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options AES wrote:
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>>> I'm not a fan of Terman. He was pompous, and mean to the Varian
>>> brothers. >> He's safely dead now, though. Of course, they are too. I know Terman's
>> son Lew slightly. >> >
> Wait, wait! I decided to pass over these assertions about Terman the > first time around, since they seemed so off the wall, not to mention > irrelevant to the subject under discussion. > > But as someone who's been in the heart of Terman's academic and > technical milieu for 54 years now, has interacted with innumerable > people who were close to Terman (and had some direct comment with him > myself), and has a continuing interest in the development and the > history of this whole era, I've never heard or read anything to support > statements like those above. I didn't intend to diss Terman--I haven't heard bad reports of him either--though all I know about him comes from his books, and having studied in a building named after him. Did the Varians complain in "The Inventor and the Pilot" or something? Cheers, Phil Hobbs | ||||
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Posted by John Larkin on July 19, 2008, 12:16 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:04:09 -0400, Phil Hobbs
>AES wrote:
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>>>> I'm not a fan of Terman. He was pompous, and mean to the Varian
>>>> brothers. >>> He's safely dead now, though. Of course, they are too. I know Terman's >>> son Lew slightly. >>> >>
>> Wait, wait! I decided to pass over these assertions about Terman the >> first time around, since they seemed so off the wall, not to mention >> irrelevant to the subject under discussion. >> >> But as someone who's been in the heart of Terman's academic and >> technical milieu for 54 years now, has interacted with innumerable >> people who were close to Terman (and had some direct comment with him >> myself), and has a continuing interest in the development and the >> history of this whole era, I've never heard or read anything to support >> statements like those above. >
>I didn't intend to diss Terman--I haven't heard bad reports of him >either--though all I know about him comes from his books, and having >studied in a building named after him. Did the Varians complain in "The >Inventor and the Pilot" or something? > >Cheers, > >Phil Hobbs Yes. Read the book. John | ||||
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