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Science has never been more
accessible to the average person. Twenty five
years ago if you wanted information on space,
electronics, astronomy or material science you
had to spend money and time to find it, sometimes
lots of money or time. You went to the library
and looked at some outdated books. You looked
through the magazine reference guides for something
a little newer, usually with little luck. You'd
go to the bookstore and buy some big thick books
with the hopes of getting the information you
were looking for. In other words, it was slow,
costly and time-consuming.
Today, the Internet really has
changed everything. I can go to NASA's web site
for info, pictures or video on the latest missions
or on the Mercury program. I can get all the information
and software I need to produce electronic circuits
for free. What I can do in one week what might
have taken 5 people a month. And even more important,
a lot of this can be done for the price of your
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Science and Electronics, Part 2
I recently had a simple physics
problem that I needed to solve. I was working
with a heavy string in an environment where the
temperature was changing. I needed to know how
much the string length changed over the temperature
change. So the first thing was to go to the Handbook
for Chemistry and Physics and get the delta change
in length for the material. I don't own a copy,
and I didn't want to spend the money for the on-line
version. More.
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Mark is the Founder and President of the New
Jersey Chapter of SAS. He has been a lover of
science since the Gemini Space Missions. He
is a graduate of Rutgers University and has
worked in various industries as a software engineer.
A lot of his work was applied-science related.
He has worked with diamond manufacturing, plastics
manuf- acturing, nuclear measuring gauges and
utility companies.
Mark is now running his own company
and is currently designing for manufacture, a
science experiment for the education market that
is SAS related. |
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