Known Errors in the Second Printing of Unit
C, 1/e
NOTE:
In all that follows I will use <letter name> to
represent a Greek-letter variable, ^ to indicate that the next
quantity is superscripted, _ to indicate that the next quantity is
subscripted, and boldface to indicate a vector quantity. I will also
go against typographical convention and put punctuation
outside of quotation marks to make whatever is enclosed in
quotes exactly reflect what is (or should be) in the
text.
Error notices added most recently (1/23/99 and 2/9/99) are marked
in red.
- page x, 5th paragraph, end of first line: change "bee" to
"be".
- page x, 5th paragraph, last line: change "than chapters" to
"then chapters".
- page xii, 3rd full paragraph, 2nd to
last line: "how design" should be "how to design".
- page xiii, 3rd paragraph, 2nd to last
line: "get use to" should be "get used to".
- page xiii, last paragraph, 2nd line: "of
work" should be "of a work".
- page 3, top right marginal comment: replace "an process" with
"a process".
- page 7,
third paragraph, next-to-last line: add a comma after
"however".
- page 7, next-to-last paragraph, third
line: add a comma after "in some cases".
- page 12, glossary entry on "conservation law," second line:
replace "object" with "objects".
- page 12, glossary entry about "energy, momentum, ...", third
line: replace "depend what" with "depend on what".
- page 14, 2nd paragraph, 2nd line: omit "in" between "well" and
"only".
- page 17, line before the last paragraph: replace "on the
inside back cover" with "inside the front cover".
- page 20, last line before the first full
paragraph: "that offers" should be "that it offers".
- page 23, Figure C2.9c, 5 g on the scale:
"nickle" should be "nickel".
- page 25, glossary entry on "technical term", end of second
line: replace "its" with "than the".
- page 33, 2nd line: move close parenthesis from after "text" to
after "as" (one word to the right).
- page 42, problem C3S.6, 5th line: replace "Specify the" by
"Specify its".
- page 53, Figure C4.6 caption, 5th line: replace "dashed" by
"vertical".
- page 56, problem C4T.4, first word: replace "A" by "An".
- page 56, problem C4T.6, first line: replace "example C4.2" by
"example C4.1".
- page 57, problem C4B.3, second line: insert dots between "kg"
and "m/s" in the vector (3 occurances).
- page 57, problem C4B.5, fourth line: insert "momentum" between
"rightward" and "to the cart".
- page 58, answer to exercise C4X.3: omit
"The interaction gives".
- page 62, third paragraph, end of
next-to-last line: "partially the"
should be "partially to
the".
- page 63, 2nd paragraph, first line: "in
collision" should be "in the collision".
- page 68, example C5.2, just above the circled number 8 in the
problem solution: replace reference to "Equation C5.2" with
"Equation C5.3".
- page 68, example C5.2, last equation: (7.1 m/s) should be
squared under the radical symbol.
- page 70, third paragraph, fifth line: separate "achievea" into
"achieve a".
- page 73, problem C5S.1, second line: insert "to" between
"given one".
- page 77, first full paragraph, second line: insert "ones"
between "simplest consistent".
- page 78, first line after exercise C6X.2: replace "section C2"
with "section C6.2".
- page 78, second paragraph after exercise C6X.2, second line:
insert "in equation C6.1" after "gravitational field strength
g".
- page 90, second paragraph, next-to-last line: change "charge
end up" to "charge ends up".
- page 91, second paragraph, next-to-last line: move "its" from
after "cancel" to after the following "of".
- page 94, second line: change "axproximation" to
"approximation".
- page 98, example C7.2, under "Unknown:": change v_0 to
v_i (2 occurances).
- page 98, last paragraph of solution,
first line: "11.2 km" should be "11.2 km/s".
- page 103, problem C7B.3, last line: change "of these spheres"
to "involved in their interaction".
- page 104, problem C7R.2, eighth line: change first "back up"
to "backup".
- page 107, caption to Figure C8.2, eighth
line: delete one of the doubled "and".
- page 107, section C8.3, first line: change "equation C9.6" to
"equation C8.5".
- page 109, third full paragraph, sixth line: put bar through
the "d" in "dp".
- page 112, fourth paragraph, last line: change "is be
conserved" to "is conserved".
- page 112, fifth paragraph, fifth line: change "interacion" to
"interaction".
- page 115, summary, II. B: change "interacion" to
"interaction".
- page 117, problem C8B.1, first line: insert "an" before
"object".
- page 117, problem C8B.1, second line:
"receives an momentum" should be "receives a momentum".
- page 117, problem C8B.1, next-to-last
line: "increase to or" should be "increase or".
- page 117, problem C8B.7, sixth line: insert "enough" before
"in this case".
- page 117, problem C8S.6: replace the final period with a
question mark.
- page 118, problem C8S.8, fifth line: (1/2)k_s x^2, not
(1/2)k_s x (that is, second x is squared).
- page 120, caption to Figure C9.2, fifth
line: "divide the its" should be "divide its".
- page 121, third-to-last line: delete one occurance of the
doubled "they".
- page 127, equation C9.25: in the first sum, v_i
should be u_i.
- page 129, second line above the equation above the equation
marked "10": change <omega>_f = v/R to
<omega>_f = v_f/R.
- page 129, equation line marked with "10"
and "11": "&endash;22 m" should be "-25 m" and "14.7 m/s" should
be "15.7 m/s". In the next equation line, "14.7 m/s" should be
"15.7 m/s", "29.4" should be "31.4", and "4.7" should be
"5.0".
- page 132, glossary: This glossary should
contain a definition for "rotational speed" following the "angular
speed" definition. The definition should read "rotational speed
v: the ordinary speed (in m/s) that a particle in a
rotating object has by virtue of the object's rotation. Note that
this speed is v = ds/dt =
r<omega> where ds is the
arclength the particle covers in time dt,
r
is its distance from the axis of rotation <omega> is the
object's angular speed."
- page 133, problem C9S.5, third line: replace "Figure C9.7"
with "Figure C9.9".
- page 133, problem C9S.8: supply the fact that the sun radiates
energy at a rate of 3.9 x 10^26 J/s.
- page 134, problem C9A.1: second line of second column: change
"youneed" to "you need."
- page 141, footnote: change "asterix" to "asterisk".
- page 144, problem statement,
next-to-last line: "on the ground" should be followed by a close
parenthesis (before the period).
- page 146, summary, item I.A., 2nd line:
replace "a contact interactions (2)" with "contact interactions,
(2)".
- page 147, glossary definition for
"caloric": delete the first occurance of "fluid".
- page 148, problem C10B.8, fourth line,
after "(about 24 deg C)": period should be a question mark.
- page 158, next-to-last line in solution
above the final batch of equations: "<delta>U^th_earth"
should be "<delta>U^th_env".
- page 185, Figure C13.9: the diagonal
arrow should be labeled with a r (that is,
r
with an arrow over).
- page 185, second line below equation
C13.21: "along its trajectory" should be "along its trajectory."
(that is, add a period after "trajectory").
- page 162, problem C11R.2, third line:
replace "going" with "traveling at 55 mi/h".
- page 164, last line above equation C12.2: replace "object
given" by "object at a given".
- page 172, second line after equation
C12.20: "since makes" should be "since it makes".
- page 172, next-to-last line before
equation C12.21: "with I have drawn" should be "with what I have
drawn".
- page 175, problem C12B.8, first line, last word: remove
italics.
- page 176, problem C12S.15, second paragraph,
next-to-last-line: replace "hundreds of millions" by "billions".
- page 176, problem C12S.15, fourth paragraph, third-to-last
line: replace "2 x 10^15" by "3 x 10^16".
- page 176, problem C12S.15, fourth paragraph, last line:
replace "13 km" by "31 km".
- page 176, problem C12S.15, last paragraph, third line: replace
"2 x 10^15 kg" by "three times this much".
- page 177, map: box labeled "Angular
Momentum" should have a white interior.
- page 178, first paragraph, next-to-last line: replace
"analogy) because" by "analogy) be because".
- page 186, drawing under "FINAL:": delete "(points vertically)"
from inside disk.
- page 186, next to last line in example: replace "direction
table's" by "direction of the table's".
- page 187, the equation with an "8" by it, and the next two
lines: replace the period between items in the subscript of the
<omega> with a comma (4 occurances).
- page 190, Figure C13.10: large
<omega>" should be small <omega>.
- page 192, problem C13R.2, fifth line from the bottom: replace
the period after "straight" with a question mark.
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