Known Errors in the Second Printing of Unit
R, 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.
- data on the first page inside the front
cover, data for Earth's orbit: 1.000 AU is equivalent to 8.33 min
of distance, not 8.0 min.
- page xii, last paragraph before section 4, first line: replace
"to bee" with "to be".
- page xii, last paragraph before section 4, last line: replace
"than chapters" with "then chapters".
- page xiv, second line above section 6:
"about how design" should be "about how to design".
- page xv, second line of section 8:
"snapshot of work" should be "snapshot of a work".
- page 15, problem R1S.3: this problem is out-of-date and will
have to be rewritten.
- page 16, problem R1R.1, first and second lines: replace
"pellet gun" with "floating ball".
- page 31, problem R2S.3, part b, last line: replace period with
question mark.
- page 77, problem R5S.2, next-to-last line: replace
<delta>s / <delta>t with
<delta><tau> / <delta>t.
- page 78, problem R5R.2, beginning of the fourth line: delete
"one placed,".
- page 85, section R6.6, seventh line:
<gamma> = 1/root(...) not <gamma> =
root(...).
- page 86, last line: replace "tool does give" with "tool does
not give".
- page 90, Figure R6.8a,b,c,d: horizontal
axis in each case should be labeled "x, s", not
"t, s" (4 times).
- page 106, problem R7B.5, second line: replace "wtih" with
"with."
- page 125, problem R8R.1, fourth prosecutor entry, last word:
replace "SPSS" with "SSPS."
- page 125, problem R8R.1, fifth police witness entry: replace
"SPSS" with "SSPS."
- page 139, summary, item VI.C.1:
[1-v^2]^1/2 should be [1-v^2]^-1/2"
(exponent should be negative).
- page 157, problem R10R.1, fourth line:
"6.25m" should be "6.24m".
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