(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best science experiments & measurement books

I think this book is super handy to have around:
https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Math-Measurements-Calculations-Quantitative/dp/0879696346

It covers the math for all sorts of lab techniques and has one of the best versions of the dilution formula I've found;

[(Concentration you want) / (Concentration you have)] * Total reaction volume = volume of stock to add to reaction.

Well why would anyone want to spend more than two minutes reading Being and Time, much less two weeks?

The Scanlon thing fell apart because ADD and I chose an awful time run it, namely in the middle of the semester. That group may or may not start back up later this summer. As well, the Groundwork is a much less ambitious project. I think it's roughly the length of the first chapter of Scanlon, which we did finish, and both ADD and I have read it before.

ADD has suggested the edition by Hill and Zweig, but I've also heard good things about Mary Gregor's translation. Other big names in Kantian scholarship include Paul Guyer and Henry Allison, so if you have any of there stuff that's probably fine too.

I can recommend couple that I have read myself:

• The Particle Garden
  
• The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider
  
  Edit: These are popular science books, though. But very well written.

Clearly this issue is not easy or straightforward. My advice going forward is to either a) give us a more detailed look into your data set or b) delve into the primary literature. Many sub-discipline journals will publish applied statistics articles that could perhaps pertain to your circumstance. I advocate the latter because this will give you an idea of how members of your field have dealt with this problem. The Web of Science is a great search engine for this. I also found this book on regression and heteroscedasticity (I've never read it btw).

Although a bit late to mention this, How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life is a great book on the topic of mixing cooking with science, defiantly worth a read.

To really get a good feel for how big stuff really is on comparison, I recommend The Measure of the Universe by Isaac Asimov.

The US does use the metric system. Did you know the US was the first country to decimalize their currency? We use metric everyday, but we also use older units. There are many very good reasons for this.

http://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Happened-Metric-System-America/dp/1608194752/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407338001&sr=1-1

All About Telescopes by Sam Brown

It is out of print, but teaches all about lenses and optics including photography, so it is much more than just telescopes.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13549980M/All_about_telescopes

Number 9094 on the cover is the 3rd edition, but any will do. Be sure it is the nearly 200 page edition (my 9094 is 192 pages). There were short booklets by the same author.

https://www.amazon.com/Telescopes-Popular-Library-Scientific-Paperback/dp/0933346204
(you might find cheaper prices --the above was one quick search).

See this discussion about Brown and his books: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/478975-all-about-telescopes-by-sam-brown/

edit: spelling

Haha I mean he literally did. Go check it out on Amazon

[Quick and Easy Stirling Engine]
(http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Easy-Stirling-Engine-Larsen/dp/1466277777/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331352941&sr=1-2&tag=bookforyoudm-20)

I have a little secret :) We didn't cover vector spaces yet. I know horrific, but that's it. Another secret is I already saw a proof of each problem. We are studying out of Henry Ricardo and just finished the section 1.3. Haven't even covered the bases yet. These exercises are supposed to give a taste for what's to come. But your attention is flattering :)

[This book](histology hacks https://www.amazon.com/dp/1979731772?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf) is a good reference for some tricks.

https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Dont-Play-This-HAARP-ebook/dp/B00OV5L9LY?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect

although the HAARP facility in Alaska is 'down' now there are almost certainly smaller versions out there, and this book goes into some detail about how projecting thoughts/voices can/has been done.

I suggest How to Fossilize your hamster and Caveman Chemistry. The first is more experiment based (one chapter, one experiment). Sadly, it doesn't teach you how to fossilize hamsters, despite the title. The second is more general. It has some experiments and guidance, and it's really interesting to read.

I prefer the brand new (2008) Zweig translation, with Tom Hill's comments. I find it slightly easier to read than Gregor's, with 183 pages of commentary at the start of the book, including argument analyses.

https://www.amazon.com/Lab-Math-Measurements-Calculations-Quantitative/dp/0879696346

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/jed_mcclure

https://www.amazon.com/Hexagonal-Graph-Paper-Notebook-Notebooks/dp/1537648705

Get her the Foundations of Measurement Volumes I-III.

http://www.amazon.com/Lab-Chip-Technology-Biomolecular-Separation/dp/1904455476/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b

and

http://www.amazon.com/Lab-Chip-Technology-Fabrication-Microfluidics/dp/1904455468/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Measures of Genius by Alan Durden is a book about the scientists whose names are used for SI units, such as the volt (Alessandro Volta) and the watt (James Watt).

The book is available from Amazon and a news article about it is here.

• The World of Westeros (GoT).
  
  
• The Little Prince
  
  
• And The Large Hadron Collider
  
  

Found it on Amazon.