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http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/crystal.pdf

Kris Pister of the University of California, Berkeley, has written down “all I know about silicon on one sheet of paper.” The compact reference source takes the form of a foldup crystal, which is available as a PDF file on Pister’s Web site. Pister, a member of Berkeley’s department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, also shares his philosophy and info for new students, a set of guidelines on such topics as publishing, collaboration, and the purchase of lab equipment.

Compiled by Oklahoma State University’s environmental health and safety department, OSU Safety Manuals address laboratory safety. Among the topics covered are lasers and what to do if your lab is threatened by a tornado.

White dwarf stars pulsate in modes that can be described with spherical harmonics. To see what these modes look...

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