Re: Book Review

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

In a message dated 2/5/02 11:40:30 AM Central Standard Time, Par pp 807 
writes:

 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 
>  >  
>  >  http://www.fieldp-dot-com/.
>  >  
>  >  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
>  >  
>  >  
>  >