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Corrections for Science Explorer/Book N: Electricity and Magnetism ©2002

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 Science Explorer/Book N: Electricity and Magnetism © 2002.

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 Science Explorer/Book N: Electricity and Magnetism 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
0-13-054101-X

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
28 par. 3, line 3 "...field may attract..." "...field can attract..." 26-Oct-2001
35 par. 2, lines 4–5 "...to making superconductors..." "...to make superconductors..." 23-Nov-2001
47 par. 2, line 1 "...of charge interact..." "...of charges interact..." 23-Nov-2001
103 par. 2, lines 6–7 "...that reverse..." "...that a reverse..." 23-Nov-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
29 par. 2, lines 3–4 "...time. In fact, Earth's magnetic field...every million years or so." "...time. Earth's magnetic poles periodically reverse themselves. This last happened about 780,000 years ago." 26-Oct-2001
41 Section 1, Key Ideas, fourth bullet "For an object...in the same direction." "In a magnetized material, most of the domains are lined up in the same direction." 26-Oct-2001
59 par. 5, lines 4–5 "...two paths, it will travel through the one with the lower resistance." "...two paths, more of the current will travel through the path with lower resistance." 26-Oct-2001
61 par. 2, line 5 "...is why a bulb most often burns out..." "...is one reason a bulb might burn out..." 26-Oct-2001
100 par. 4, line 2 "...zinc. He separated the two metals a piece..." "...zinc. On top of the silver he added a..." 26-Oct-2001
100 par. 4, lines 3–4 "...in salt water. Volta found...current flowed. When..." "...water. Then he repeated the layers: zinc, silver, paper, zinc, and so on. Volta found that if he connected wires to the metals, current flowed. When..." 26-Oct-2001
100 par. 4, lines 4–5 "...layers of silver, paper, and zinc, more current flowed. If you did..." "...layers, more current flowed. If..." 26-Oct-2001
103 par. 2, lines 3–6 "...reactants. Such a cell is said...Not every substance can be...carefully chosen..." "...reactants. Such cells are said...Not every type of battery can be...carefully chosen..." 26-Oct-2001
142 What Are the Dangers of Manipulated Photos? "...'magic', an unethical person could...try to use faked photographs in..." New Page 142 "What Are the Dangers of Manipulated Photos?" Paragraph 18-Dec-2001


Teacher's Edition
0-13-054102-8

Corrections of factual errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
136 Analyze and Conclude ans., #4, line 2 "A 3-gigabyte..." "A 10-gigabyte..." 15-Jun-2001

Corrections of typographical or grammatical errors.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
108 Multiple Choice ans., #3 "a" "b" 23-Nov-2001
124 Including All Students, line 12 "...or further apart.)" "...or farther apart.)" 15-Jun-2001
140 Background, col. 2, line 6 "...their Websites..." "...their Web sites..." 15-Jun-2001

Changes for clarification.

Page Location Original Revision Date Posted
33 Exploring Electric Circuits notes, lines 1–7 "Encourage students...a knife switch.) Ask students...symbols are..." "Ask students...symbols used in circuit diagrams are..." 26-Oct-2001


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