Building Scientific Apparatus

A practical guide to design and construction

John H. Moore
Christopher C. Davis
Michael A. Coplan

Soft cover:  549 pagina's 

Uitgever: Perseus Books; 1989; ISBN 0201131897; 2nd Ed.

The book treats mechanical design, glass, optics, electronics, and temperature measurement and control. This is, essentially, the only book that explains how to build research apparatus, how to take advantage of commercial suppliers of scientific apparatus, where to find suppliers, and how to use manufacturing facilities available to research scientists.

Contents:

I Mechanical Design
1.1 Tools and Shop Processes
1.2 Materials
1.3 Joining Materials
1.4 Mechanical Drawing
1.5 Physical Principles of Mechanical Design
1.6 Constrained Motion

2. Working with glass
2.1 Properties of Glasses
2.2 Laboratory Components Available in Glass
2.3 Laboratory Glassblowing Skills

3. Vacuum Technology
3.1 Gases
3.2 Gas Flow
3.3 Pressure Measurement
3.4 Vacuum Pumps
3.5 Vacuum Hardware
3.6 Vacuum-System Design and Construction

4 Optics
4.1 Optical Terminology
4.2 Analysis of Optical Systems
4.3 Optical Components
4.4 Optical Materials
4.5 Optical Sources
4.6 Lasers
4.7 Optical Dispersing Instruments
4.8 Detectors

5 Charged-Particle optics
5.1 Basic Concepts of Charged-Particle Optics
5.2 Electrostatic Lenses
5.3 Charged-Particle Sources
5.4 Energy Analyzers
5.5 Mass Analyzers
5.6 Electron- and Ion-Beam Devices: Construction

6. Electronics
6.1 Preliminaries
6.2 Passive Components
6.3 Active Components
6.4 Amplifiers and Pulse Electronics
6.5 Power Supplies
6.7 Data acquisition
6.8 Extraction of Signal from Noise
6.9 Grounds and grounding
6.10 Hardware and construction
6.11 Troubleshooting

23-12-2002