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Corrections for Conceptual Physics ©1999
As part of its Open Book Initiative, Pearson Education has established an Internet-based communication policy that alerts educators to any factual or typographical errors or areas of possible misunderstanding in its school programs. In accordance with this policy, Prentice Hall is alerting you to revisions made in Conceptual Physics ©1999.
We organized the corrections by category:
- Corrections of factual errors
- Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors
- Changes for clarification, where the original wording or art could be improved to support student understanding
Publishers typically reprint books several times over the life of a copyright. Corrections can be made in each printing. Thus, depending on which printing of Conceptual Physics you have, these corrections may already appear in your textbook.
| Key: |
Fig. = Figure |
| Ch. = Chapter |
| par. 1, par. 2, etc. = paragraph 1, paragraph 2, etc. (an incomplete paragraph at the top of a page is counted as paragraph 1) |
| ques. 1, ques. 2, etc. = question 1, question 2, etc. |
| col. 1, col. 2, etc. = column 1, column 2, etc. |
| ans. = answer |
Student Edition
ISBN: 0-201-33287-6
Corrections of factual errors.
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| Page |
Location |
Original |
Revision |
Date Posted |
| 29 |
Fig. 3.2 art |
Red arrows are supposed to be drawn to a scale of 1 cm = 20 km/h. |
Draw all red arrows to scale. |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 37 |
Fig. 3.15, caption, line 2 |
"...follows the dashed curve." |
"...follows the solid curve." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 94 |
Fig. 7.9, row c, art |
vector arrow over white ball on the right |
shorten the vector arrow over the white ball on the right to the same length as the vector arrow over the center red ball in row c |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 99 |
Fig. 7.13 art |
vectors |
increase the length of the top vector labelled "mv" so that it is as long as the center vector below it labelled "mv" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 99 |
par. 3, lines 1–2 |
"...in a spark chamber." |
"...in a bubble chamber." |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 173 |
Writing Very Large and Very Small Numbers, bullets 2, 3 |
"• a billion kilograms is the mass of the earth's oceans.
• a billion earths still wouldn't equal the mass of the sun." |
Delete both items. |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 241 |
col. 2, #6 |
"...(16.3)" |
"...(16.2)" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 241 |
col. 2, #7, line 3 |
"...(16.3)" |
"...(16.2)" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 297 |
footnote, lines 1–2 |
"...with some carbon dioxide." |
"...with argon and a little carbon dioxide." |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 346 |
23.7, par. 5 |
"An ice skater skates on a thin film of water between the blade and the ice, which is produced by the blade pressure and friction. As soon as the pressure is released, the water refreezes." |
"Once, it was thought that an ice skate's pressure lowered the freezing point of ice. Now, we know that this is not sufficient to explain ice skating. Ice has a thin layer of liquid on its surface even at very low temperatures." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 362 |
par. 2, last line |
"...(600 x 300)/600 = 1/2;..." |
"...(600 – 300)/600 = 1/2;..." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 374 |
par. 4, lines 1–2 |
"...hertz (Hz), after Heinrich Hertz, who demonstrated radio waves in 1886." |
"...hertz (Hz)." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 459 |
Link to Biology |
"Link to Biology
Fiber-Optic Bears" |
Delete "Link to Biology" feature. |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 514 |
#3, par. 1, line 3 |
"...for example, attracts" |
"...for example, repels" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 514 |
#3, par. 1, line 4 |
"...and repels opposite" |
"...and attracts opposite" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 526 |
par. 1, lines 2–4 |
"Computer motherboards use low-energy capacitors as on-off switches. Computer keyboards have them beneath each key." |
"Computer memories use very tiny capacitors to store the 1's and 0's of the binary code. Some keyboards have them beneath each key." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 533 |
Fig. 34.2, caption, line 3 |
"...(6.25 billion billion..." |
"...(6.24 billion billion..." |
19-Apr-2000 |
Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.
| Page |
Location |
Original |
Revision |
Date Posted |
| 62 |
last par., line 6 |
"...and the Problems sections..." |
"...and the Think and Solve sections..." |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 374 |
last par., line 2 |
"...the wave it produces is" |
"...the wave it produces are" |
08-Jun-2000 |
| 503 |
Science, Technology, and Society, col. 1, last line |
"...of high-resistant surfaces..." |
"...of high-resistance surfaces..." |
19-Apr-2000 |
| 506 |
par. 3, line 9 |
"...where the balances of attractive..." |
"...where the balance of attractive..." |
19-Apr-2000 |
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