"Bookbag of the Future", 3/2/2000
Courtesy of New York Times
- Storage capacity of a CD
- 650 Mb (megabytes)
- Playing time of an audio CD?
- Slideshow: CD Optics and "Scratch Resistance"
- Live demonstration of scratch resistance of CD
- (gradual destruction of CD by intentional scratching)
- Discussion of laser pickup
- focusing mechanism
- focusing alignment
- tracking alignment
- Clarification of 8-to-14 encoding
- Slideshow: Manufacturing of CDs
CD-ROM Handbook, ed. Chris Sherman (McGraw-Hill, 1994).
The CD-ROM Drive, A Brief System Description, Soring G. Stan (Kluwer Academic, 1998).
The physics of the compact disc, John A. Cope, Phys. Educ 28, 15 (1993).
