Lasers, Ray Guns, & Light Cannons: Projects from the Wizard's Workbench

by Gordon McComb

Book Overview

Takes you step-by-step through 100 build-your-own laser projects - from ray guns and laser light shows to night scopes and laser pointers. This book provides help with projects for laser... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070450358
• ISBN13: 9780070450356
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Tab Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

much better than the title or cover

I've worked in optics and interferometry and was absolutely delighted with this book.Lots of tricks for hardware-store improvisation! If you're not a tinkerer, this is not the book for you. There's little technical depth and no really good experiments or instrument design in it. (good experiments for this kind of book have either enormous educational value or reproduce poorly-understood phenomena).If you know what you're doing though, this is where to look for tips on building your own optical bench, etc. All the student tricks I'd picked up along the way and then some. I've recommended it to a couple of past colleagues, too.