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Re: textbook touchstones

Leigh oh great and wise curmudgeon, :-)

For us unwashed, please explain why these are errors?

Cheers,
Bill Larson
Geneva, Switzerland


----- Original Message -----
From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@SFU.CA>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: 2000 May 05 1:49 AM
Subject: textbook touchstones


...one of my fave typo checks as a reviewer for physics texts is:
"How do they misspell KIRCHHOFF?"
...the other one is, do they fudge the sign of centripetal acceleration
and how?

For physics texts, I check to see if the useless mention of disorder
is made in the introduction to entropy, and in astronomy I always look
for a listing of James Bradley in the index.

Leigh