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This is a beginners beginner guide to vacuum theory, it assumes the reader knows nothing about vacuums, and avoids the use of math and units. It aims to incrementally introduce concepts and define some of the language of vacuum technology, laying the groundwork for deeper learning.
This guide starts off way zoomed out and oversimplified, building off itself as it goes, introducing new terms along the way, and ends still zoomed out and oversimplified –but a bit less so. There's so much more depth behind these concepts than acknowledge here! More technical discussion and descriptions can be found within the other pages of LCLS Vacuum Support Training, within textbooks, and most of all within your coworkers (go talk with them!).
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