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• Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics

  The new Eighth Edition of Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Dynamics marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Beer/Johnston series. Continuing in the spirit of its successful previous editions, the Eighth Edition provides conceptually accurate and thorough coverage together with a significant addition of new problems, including biomechanics problems, and the most extensive media resources available. Text [...]

• Astronomy: Build Your Own Telescope for Inexpensive Family Fun

  Astronomy is thought of as something nerds do or those hidden away in towers with big telescopes and mysterious computations. However, you don’t need to be good at math a nerd or spend a long time learning to discover the stars. The ancients did that and learned a lot about their world that way. Given [...]

• Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles

   Contains a study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle for the Apollo Moon Missions.    Recounts the exploits of the Saturn vehicle’s operational life from orbital missions around Earth testing Apollo equipment to the Moon and back.  Reprint of a book that was originally published in 1980. Related posts Stages to Saturn: A Technological History [...]

• Forty-Two Poems

  There lies afar behind a western hill The Town without a Market, white and still; For six feet long and not a third as high Are those small habitations. There stood I, Waiting to hear the citizens beneath Murmur and sigh and speak through tongueless teeth. When all the world lay burning in the sun [...]

• About The Telescope

  Galileo, the great Italian scientist, was the first man to use a telescope for studying the stars. This was not much more than three hundred years ago. Galileo’s telescope was very weak compared to modern ones, but it changed the study of astronomy immediately. He saw that the Milky Way is not merely a bright [...]