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Corrections for Prentice Hall Science Heat Energy ©1997

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 corrections made in Prentice Hall Science Heat Energy © 1997.

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 Prentice Hall Science Heat Energy 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


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Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
41 par. 2, lines 7–8 "...radiation (heat) from the sun." "...radiation given off by the Earth's surface." 09-Apr-2002
54 Fig. 2-12 art Replace art. New Figure 2-12 Art 09-Apr-2002
55 Careers Ceramic Engineer, par. 2, lines 3–6 "...write to the National...Westerville, OH 43081." "...write to American Ceramic Society, 735 Ceramic Place, Westerville OH 43081." 09-Apr-2002

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
33 par. 1, line 1 "There are exceptions..." "There is one exception..." 14-Mar-2000
33 par. 1, lines 5–6 "...0°C. (Volume...takes up.) As..." "...0°C. As..." 09-Apr-2002
46 par. 6, line 3 "...(Black absorbs..." "...(Black surfaces absorb..." 09-Apr-2002




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