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Mims, Forrest M.,author.
"Written by the foremost amateur scientist in the U.S. today, Forrest Mims' Science Experiments covers many ways you can enter the world of amateur science. You'll learn the essential skills, methods, and procedures that you need to begin working, thinking, inquiring, and recording like a real scientist."--Back cover.
Includes index.
How to study tree rings -- Snow science -- Tracking heat islands -- Vibration sensors -- Make an experimental optical fiber seismometer -- Ultra-simple sunshine recorders -- The infrared thermometer: an essential science gadget -- Capturing and studying airborne dust, smoke, and spores -- Track the leading greenhouse gas -- Build a twilight photometer, part 1 -- Build a twilight photometer, part 2 -- How to analyze scientific images -- Doing science with a digital scanner -- Data mining: how to analyze online scientific data -- Using sensors with dataloggers -- How to document what you make or discover -- MARS-BOT: adding science to robotics --How to photograph the solar aureole -- Record your work from a picture post -- Digital pinhole photograpy -- How to make and use retroreflectors -- How to use LEDs to detect light -- Use LEDs to track night-launched projectiles -- Connecting fibers to LEDs and sensors -- Transform things into sounds with the PunkPAC -- Making synthesized music from your data -- Startups: origins of the PC revolution -- Thomas Jefferson: maker in chief -- The kit that launched the tech revolution -- When projects fail.
"Written by the foremost amateur scientist in the U.S. today, Forrest Mims' Science Experiments covers many ways you can enter the world of amateur science. You'll learn the essential skills, methods, and procedures that you need to begin working, thinking, inquiring, and recording like a real scientist."--Back cover.
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