Lasers, Ray Guns, and Light Cannons: Projects from the Wizard's Workbench
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Book Description
Evolving in recent years from the stuff of science fiction to a part of everyday life with a seemingly boundless list of practical uses, laser beams are used in everything from performing delicate surgeries and delivering crystal-clear musical sound to tallying groceries at the supermarket. Though the use of lasers has become commonplace, they continue to fascinate. For electronics professionals, buffs, and students, and the experimenter in everyone, this unique book details approximately 100 interesting build-your-own laser projects, from ray guns and laser light shows to night scopes and laser pointers. Selected for their usefulness, educational value, or just plain quotient of fun, all of the projects have been thoroughly tested and debugged by the author. In addition to explicit instructions for each project, the book also includes lists of sources for all laser diodes, tubes, and other parts.
From the Back Cover
Explore the Future in Your Own Home Lab! Yes, you can-build a laser ray gun, put on a professional-level laser light show, create holograms, and perform dozens of other fascinating and fun experiments with the simple instructions in this magic-packed book. Renowned electronics writer Gordon McComb shows you how to build more than 88 exciting projects with inexpensive, easily obtained components and step-by-step illustration-laden instructions. In addition to ray guns, light shows, and holograms, he gives hyou clear, complete, and tested plans for constructing projects that: Detect intruders around a perimeter; Precisely measure the speed of light; Use lasers to study hydrodynamics; confirm earthquake potential; Modulate sound with light; Perform laser "snooping"; Explore fiberoptics; perform simple scanning; Throw a switch with light; Transmit data with lasers; Measure objects' speed with high accuracy; Carry your voice over a beam of light; And much more! Laced with fascinating scientific history, this book of field-tested projects is organized to facilitate your own creative construction! Module organization makes it easy to invent and construct new projects galore. Full appendices give you parts sources, suggested reading, and a glossary.
Lasers, Ray Guns, and Light Cannons: Projects from the Wizard's Workbench,Gordon McComb,Mcgraw-Hill,007045034X,Computer Books: General,Experiments,General,Laser Technology,Lasers,Science,Technology
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