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http://ebookhelp4u.blogspot.com/2008/12 ... ition.html
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I have a link to the hard copy edition here:
http://iecfusiontech.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -book.html
Free Plasma Physics Book
Free Plasma Physics Book
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
Got it. It looks like a great introduction to plasmas and fusion power and it is only 2 years old, so it has a lot of references to ITER and similar experiments. Lite on the math from my perspective, but that's a good thing for most people trying to figure this out for the first time.
The first part of the book is about why fusion is useful, so that is a boon for the evangelists. There are some good reasons to go after fusion, even if it means 100 more years of research. The second part of the book goes into more details on plasma physics, but in a pretty gentle way. For everyone out there who wants to understand all the technical arguments I'd think this is a great place to start.
The first part of the book is about why fusion is useful, so that is a boon for the evangelists. There are some good reasons to go after fusion, even if it means 100 more years of research. The second part of the book goes into more details on plasma physics, but in a pretty gentle way. For everyone out there who wants to understand all the technical arguments I'd think this is a great place to start.
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If you treat energy separately from momentum it's really hard to keep the bookkeeping straight.
Better to take the harder option and use quaternions:
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/ ... -17-03.PDF
That way you know you haven't missed anything...
Better to take the harder option and use quaternions:
http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/ ... -17-03.PDF
That way you know you haven't missed anything...
Ars artis est celare artem.
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I went to their C++ section and saw that they have C++ primer, which I legally acquired from O'Reilly's digital ebooks: http://i42.tinypic.com/2gtro8y.png
Make that of what you will.
Make that of what you will.