Well then let me ask you this... Have you checked your local public or school library yet??? have you even bothered to really check this and the other web links I posted up for you to use, or are you just looking for us to give you the answers to these questions??? I say this because, I know for a fact that if I were in your position, I would have secured a book already!!! In fact, I probably would have found a few online!!! Yeah!!! That's right!!! online!!! I also would have found a few in used book stores which are all over the place... Including way out in the boondocks for cryin out loud!!!

You're only limited by your own imagination as well as your sense of initiative and ingenuity when it comes to seeking the information you desire to secure - PERIOD!!!
Now, go out and seek what you desire, and if I come across a book for you online, I'll post it up for you... In the meantime, do a google search in google books and you should come up with plenty of hits on reference books covering industrial radiography.

Btw, what school are you going to that requires you to go beyond the fundamentals of NDT methods and dives right into intermediate and advanced level NDT without even referring to a concise reference book on the subject matter??? I ask this because, it is really strange that your instructor would only give you handouts, and yet you feel that they are not enough to cover the types of questions being given to you in these quizzes...

So either you're unable to find the answers to the quizzes in the handouts which would mean tha the the instructor is giving you worthless reference material and I find that really hard to believe, or you're so obsessed in outwitting the instructor by showing him/her just how much advanced you are in the subject matter that it is imperative for you to go beyond the fundamentals and start to pick the instructor's own brain on just how knowledgeable the instructor really is on the subject which would end up being a complete waste of everybody's time and effort if this course you are going through is nothing more than an Associate degree level Welding Engineering Technology course curriculum as opposed to a full fledged and totally separate degree level course on Quality Control/Quality Assurance instead and some of the course material actually covers intermediate level NDT methods.

So if you would answer my question as to what exactly it is, and on what level are you currently studying whatever it is you are studying, we could then understand better what your current situation is, because I'm not in the business or pleasure of helping someone cheat - CAPECHE???

Why do I think this??? Because the information/links/resources I gave you are more than enough to give you a leg up in being able to prepare yourself to answer any and all of those questions as well as similar types of questions as the ones you posted up already in your previous posts and I find it hard to believe that any instructor worth their salt would not give you the necessary tools/resources in order to prepare you for any upcoming quizzes and more importantly, to give you the necessary reference material for you to use and to enable you to comprehend and understand the subject matter to the level where you indeed are prepared to answer any type of questions thrown at you as long as the answers cna be easily found within the reference book or even the handouts and whatever notes you were taking during the instructor's lectures on the subject matter...

You were taking notes weren't you??? If not, then bring in a tape recorder so that you could play back later in case you missed something or forgot to write something important down... In other words, if the subject matter and the questions are originating from the handouts and notes being given during the lectures, then you should have no trouble answering the questions on the quizzes given to you so long as the questions all originate from the very same handouts and lecture notes... If they do not, and you have proof that they do not, then you need to make a complaint about it!!! But you better be darn sure that you do have proof because if you don't, then the only thing that you have proved is that you're more interested in finding the easy way out and any educator worth their salt will notice that in a NY minute!

So if you really think that your instructor is giving you questions that you seriously cannot answer based on the current reference materials given as well as the lectures and notes covered during the lectures, then by all means make a complaint to the Dean or Chairperson of the department where your course is governed and administered by, but you better have proof!!! I hope these suggestions will help you more than cause animosity between us because, I'm still hopeful that you are indeed sincere in your quest for knowledge. ;)

Good Luck!

Respectfully,
Henry

Henry, If I had paid you money for that bashing I would be in the small claims court now trying to get it back. Harder, pussycat, faster, kill, kill!

Hello Nigel,

Just by your reply, you have proved to be one, yet there's always the possibility of redeeming yourself at some point... Btw, all you need to do is to look at your profile and you'll see that your sign up date is indeed "12/31/1969" even though you did actually join only a few years ago, and I was only trying to inject some humor into the conversation but instead, you interpreted as something offensive towards you which baffles me by your reaction...  Also, do not try to better yourself by insinuating that every one of those 37 posts were "worthwhile! ;)" Although, I did find quite a few of them quite humorous indeed along with the occasional "insertfootinmouth" reply which has happened to all of us in here on occasion including myself!!! :) :) :) ROTFLMFAOAAA!!! :) :) :)

Now, let's get back to the matter at hand shall we??? First off, you come in here hijacking the thread by starting your "fecial" rant towards me when another person was just expressing his own experience with seeking help in this forum, and so I decided to respond to your rather rude and disrespectful comment regarding the way I behave in here when you express yourself in that manner??? How hypocritical to say the least. :( Well Nigel, who friggin died and gave you a superior moral authority to start instigating such crap??? NOBODY DID!!!

So please try to show the rest of us a much better example of you actually participating in here as opposed to "trolling" in here recently, and occasionally only posting to instigate some sort of confrontation with whomever you choose, because after awhile it gets real old fast... There are other forums where that sort of practice is tolerated, but not here!

So if you're going to contribute some of your knowledge and experience which has been shown to be at times, impressive in some accounts of your previous posts - within the certain sections of the forum, then please do so by all means, but if you're going to come in here to our beloved forum and instigate confrontations with whomever you please, you will find that most of the folks in here will find your current comments unwelcome at the very least - CAPECHE???

And if I failed to give you a proper "Weldcome" beforehand then Nigel, "WELDCOME TO THE WORLD'S GREATEST WELDING FORUM!!! :) :) :)"

So let's not turn this into a childish back and forth between two individuals in here over personal differences... If you want to send me a Private Message which is a feature available to you in here, then by all means do so, but let's not splash our personal differences, or obvious animosity towards each other and instead, try to promote a better image of professionalism while allowing ourselves to be humorous and at times when necessary, as straightforward and to the point as possible as opposed to being confrontational in this forum...

Now if you took the time to retrace the beginning of this thread and follow the time lines of each posting, you will discover that my own comments were a response to being accused of being rude, or posting irrelevant links for someone's knowledge base to "bashing someone" when it is very clear to anyone who does take the time, and places the effort to review chronologically the posts in this thread to see that it is clear that I had no intention whatsoever to "bash" anyone in here or otherwise and I was simply responding to a false accusation which later was resolved, and put to rest until you decided that it was in your own best interest to revive much to do about nothing! :(

So I end this conversation here with you by emphasizing that there's no such a thing as time being wasted in taking the time to read the entire thread chronologically so that you do indeed understand the thread better as opposed ot becoming very reactive and confrontational when good humor is sooo much more fun!!! ;) Don't you agree??? Now if you want to continue expressing yourself in the same manner as your recent previous posts in this thread show, then you certainly have the right to do so - that is your choice. ;) And by all means, add a topic or two if you have the time every now and then as I'm sure they will be informative in content... ;)

Finally, "Ishcibble" is sort of an inside joke in a word that my old friends used to use among us while we were growing up in New York city which really meant: "Are you as confused as I am??? ;)" It also had other meanings, but it all depended in the context in which it was used to express an opinion or an observation of certain behaviors expressed by others around us. ;)

Respectfully,
Henry