Book description
Forrest M. Mims is a revered contributor to Make: magazine, where his popular columns about science-related topics and projects for Makers are evergreen treasures. Collected together here for the first time, these columns range from such simple projects as building an LED tracker for hand-launched night rockets to such challenging builds as an ultra-sensitive twilight photometer that measures the elevation of layers of dust, smoke, and smog from around 3,000 feet to the top of the stratosphere at 31 miles!
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Table of contents
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Becoming an Amateur Scientist
- Chapter 1: How to Study Tree Rings
- Chapter 2: Snow Science
- Chapter 3: Tracking Heat Islands
- Chapter 4: Vibration Sensors
- Chapter 5: Make an Experimental Optical Fiber Seismometer
- Chapter 6: Ultra-Simple Sunshine Recorders
- Chapter 7: The Infrared Thermometer: An Essential Science Gadget
- Chapter 8: Capturing and Studying Airborne Dust, Smoke, and Spores
- Chapter 9: Track the Leading Greenhouse Gas
- Chapter 10: Build a Twilight Photometer, part 1
- Chapter 11: Build a Twilight Photometer, part 2
- Chapter 12: How to Analyze Scientific Images
- Chapter 13: Doing Science with a Digital Scanner
- Chapter 14: Data Mining: How to Analyze Online Scientific Data
- Chapter 15: Using Sensors with Dataloggers
- Chapter 16: How to Document What You Make or Discover
- Chapter 17: MARS-BOT: Adding Science to Robotics
- Chapter 18: How to Photograph the Solar Aureole
- Chapter 19: Record Your World from a Picture Post
- Chapter 20: Digital Pinhole Photography
- Chapter 21: How to Make and Use Retroreflectors
- Chapter 22: How to Use LEDs to Detect Light
- Chapter 23: Use LEDs to Track Night-Launched Projectiles
- Chapter 24: Connecting Fibers to LEDs and Sensors
- Chapter 25: Transform Things into Sounds with the PunkPAC
- Chapter 26: Making Synthesized Music from Your Data
- Chapter 27: Startups: Origins of the PC Revolution
- Chapter 28: Thomas Jefferson: Maker in Chief
- Chapter 29: The Kit That Launched the Tech Revolution
- Chapter 30: When Projects Fail
- Index
Product information
- Title: Forrest Mims' Science Experiments
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2016
- Publisher(s): Make: Community
- ISBN: 9781680451177
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