Errors in Unit T, 2/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. The date following each error specifies the date when the error was first posted.

  • page xi, 10th line below About the Author: "in 1990." should be "in 1991." (07/10/02)
  • page xiii, in the list of volume titles: the title of unit E should be "Electric and Magnetic Fields are Unified", and the title of unit Q should be "Particles Behave Like Waves". (07/10/02)
  • page xvi, 12th line below the heading The Text as the Primary Source: "(see the example at the upper left)" should be "(see the example at the upper right)". (07/10/02)
  • page 33, table T2.2, title: insert "at room temperature" at the end. (05/31/03)
  • page 35, problem T2S.1, part (a): change "equation T2.14" to "equation T2.15" and "equation T2.13" to "equation T2.14". (05/31/03)
  • page 35, problem T2S.5, part (a): should read "The magnitude of the upward buoyant force on a balloon is equal to the magnitude of the weight..." ("the magnitude of" was omitted two times). (07/10/02)
  • page 36, problem T2S.6: this problem is difficult, because the rms speed does not exceed the escape speed. This problem really requires the methods of chapter T7 to answer. (05/31/03)
  • page 55, problem T3S.7: insert "to the surface" after "If the bubble rises". (08/14/04)
  • page 73, problem T4S.8, part (b), first line: change n to q.
  • page 74, problem T4R.1, part (a), first line: change N to <epsilon>.
  • page 74, problem T4A.1: part (c) was not correctly indented. (05/31/03)
  • page 81, equation T5.2, the final numerical answer should be 0.85 x 10^-3. (07/10/02)
  • page 92, problem T5S.3, part (b). Append "Set MaxRows = 200 so that each table row roughly corresponds to the same fractional energy distribution as a single macropartition in the situation described in part (a)." (05/31/03)
  • page 92, problem T5S.3, part (d). Append "Again, Set MaxRows = 200." (05/31/03)
  • page 93, problem T5A.1: change part labels from "a.", "b.", "c." to "(a)", "(b)", "(c)". (05/31/03)
  • page 93, problem T5A.1, part (a), first line after equation T5.10: change "and B is another quantity that does not depend on U." with "and B is a quantity that depends on U but not x." (05/31/03)
  • page 105, exercise T6X.6, first line: change "0.1 eV" to "0.01 eV". (08/14/04)
  • page 106, equation T6.25a: append a T to the denominator of the exponent. (08/14/04)
  • page 109, problem T6B.7: add "at room temperature" just before the question mark. (07/10/02)
  • page 110, last line of right column: change "(3Ne)" to "(3N<epsilon>)". (05/31/03)
  • pages 110-111, problem T6A.1: change part labels from "a." and "b." to "(a)" and "(b)". (05/31/03)
  • page 129, problems T7B.1 and T7B.3: specify that T = 300 K. (08/14/04)
  • page 129, problem T7B.5, last line: change "figure T7.7" to "figure T7.9". (05/31/03)
  • page 130, problem T7S.7, equations T7.28 and T7.29: change j to n. (07/10/02)
  • page 130, problem T7S.7, just before equation T7.30: Change "So we can convert these sums to sums over j by multiplying each term in the sum by" to "We can handle this by multiplying the term for a given n by". (07/10/02)
  • page 132, equation T7.37, second line: there should be a v_P in the denominator. (08/14/04)
  • page 133, equation T7.43b, first line: change the first n to a j. (08/14/04)
  • page 133, equation T7.43b, second line: change all three occurances of n to j. (08/14/04)
  • page 148, example T8.7, first line of Translation and Model: change "When the 5 kg" to "When the 2 kg". (07/10/02)
  • page 148, example T8.7, second line above equation T8.35: change "same of water" to "same mass of water". (8/14/04)
  • page 151, problem T8S.2, first line: the squared L should be in the numerator not the denominator of the expression for n. (05/31/03)
  • page 151, problem T8S.2, second line: change "monatomic gas for" to "monatomic gas in a cubical box of volume L^3 for". (05/31/03)
  • page 151, problem T8S.3, third and second lines from the end: change "equation T8.8" to "equation T8.7" in two places. (05/31/03)
  • page 174, problem T9R.2, part (a). Append "Assume that steps 1 and 3 are approximately isothermal." (05/31/03)
  • page 176, last line above the "Answers to Exercises": change "equation T9.23" to "equation T9.16". (05/31/03)

(05/31/03) Thanks to David Tanenbaum for spotting some of the errors posted on this date.

(08/14/04) Thanks to Vic DeCarlo for most of the errors posted on this date.

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