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Corrections for Prentice Hall Science The Nature of Science ©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 The Nature of Science © 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 The Nature of Science 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
48 par. 3, lines 5–6 "...your weight would be 317 times greater..." "...your weight would be much greater..." 22-Feb-2002

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
55 par. 3, lines 2–4 "...ruler. A rectangular solid is often called a regular solid. The volume of a regular solid..." "...ruler. The volume of a rectangular solid..." 28-Mar-2002




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