Corrections and
clarifications
(There
is a separate section below for corrections to solutions to the
problems)
(The
notation
is:
line
n means n lines from top, including equations; line
-n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. )
p. 261, line -15: replace
'obtained from spent fuel rods in thermal reactors is called depleted
uranium' to 'is obtained as a byproduct of enriching uranium for use in
thermal reactors and is called depleted
uranium.'
p. 265, line 1: Insert
a
factor ½ before ΔE0
p. 239, Fig. 7.9 ordinate: The ½ should be a
subscript, not a superscript, to read: log10 t½ (s)
p. 313, line 13: Remove the words 'square of the'
p. 324, Eq. (9.34): Change eV to eV/c2
p. 329, line 15: Change eV to eV/c2 and MeV to MeV/c2
p. 339, Eq. (A.3): The term with the positive
exponent needs an e to be inserted
p. 355, line 18: Change 'But from (B.23)' to 'But from (B.21)'
p. 357, Eq. (B.42): Interchanged bracketed
quantities CM and Lab
p. 378, line 3: In right column, change 3.1536
to
3.156
p. 446, right column, line 16: After line 16 entry on
Fragmentation add a new entry as: ft-value 246
Corrections
to problems and their solutions
(For
completeness
I
have
listed even trivial typographical errors. The
notation is: line n means n lines from top, including equations; line
-n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. Comments are in
[ ] brackets.)
p. 402 Solution
to Q3.5: N should be 1.2x10^57, n should be 8.4x10^38 and lambda should
be 6.6x10^12 km, i.e. about 10^7 times the solar radius.
Minor
typographical errors
(For
completeness I have listed even trivial typographical errors. The
notation is: line n means n lines from top, including equations; line
-n means n lines from the bottom, excluding footnotes. Comments are in
[ ] brackets.)
I am obliged to
Dr Eric Sheldon of Oxford University for providing the following
list. None of these relate to physics issues.
p.
xi,
line
15:
change
Mchanics
to
Mechanics
p. 18, footnote 35: In resume the first e should also be
accented
p. 20, footnote 40, line 2: Change z to s to read: Gasiorowicz
(1974).
p. 22, line 5: Change drawn to draw
p. 27, lne -6: Transfer 'simultaneously' to follow 'that' in line
-7,
p. 31, bottom line: Delete the first 'of'
p. 33, line 6: To conform with convention, the inelastically
scattered particle should be primed as a'
p. 34, line 14: Change the first 'that 'to 'than'
p. 35, line -1: Delete s from depends
p. 36, line -22: inhomogeneities
is
misspelt
p. 36, line -9: Capitalize the v in Gev
p. 38, bottom line: Insert a t in Hofstader
p. 39, footnote 9: Ditto
p. 58, line -17: Change faction to fraction
p. 58, line -3: Change Figure 2.13 to Figure 2.15
p. 63, line -1: Insert a prime on the second a
p. 84, line 2: Change later to latter
p. 87, line 3: Change Equations to Equation
p. 97, line -4: Change interaction to interactions
p. 99, footnote 22, line 1: Delete the duplicated 'try to'
p. 104, line 10: Insert 'is' after 'there'
p. 114, line -2: Insert 'to' after 'plane'
p. 117, line -4: Change compliment to complement
p. 130, line 4: Change 'or' to 'of'
p. 139, line 12: Change 'spectometer' to 'spectrometer'
p. 139, line 13: Change 'mention' to 'mentioned'
p. 159, Figure 5.9 caption, line 4: Change 'measure' to
'measured'
p. 163, line -5: Change 'lends' to 'lend'
p. 187, l. 17: The s should be in roman font, not italic
p. 187, footnote 11: Change 'lead' to 'led' on both occasions
p. 195, Fig. 6.17 caption, line 2: Delete the semicolon after
'through'
p. 196, line 4: Change 'lead' to 'led'
p. 202, line 10: Change 'where' to 'which'
p. 203, line -16: Change 'mesons' to 'meson'
p. 205, line 10: Transfer 'only' to precede 'one'
p. 207, line 12: Change the first 'that' to 'than'
p. 207, footnote ref. 23, 1st line: Change 'Glasow' to 'Glashow'
p. 211, Fig. 6.25 caption, 2nd line: Change 'and' to
'while'
p. 216, line 3: Change 'statistic' to 'statistics'
p. 218, line -12: Change the first 'that' to 'the'
p. 219, footnote ref. 6, bottom line: Change 'quarks' to 'quark'
p. 225, line 2: Change 'nuclei' to 'nucleus'
p. 228, line -8: Delete the period after momentum
p. 232, line -17: Add an s to moment
p. 233, Fig. 7.7 caption, 2nd line: Change 'denoted' to 'denote'
p. 234, footnote ref. Change Leo to James
p. 236, Fig. 7.8: In the abscissa, the subscript c should be
capitalized
p. 243, line 7: Insert 'to' after 'due'
p. 246, line -11: Change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 247, line -4: Change 'changes' to 'change'
p. 259, line -4: Italicize the q
p. 269, line 12: Hyphenate dt
p. 269, line -8: Change 'bremmstrahlung' to 'bremsstrahlung'
p. 270, line 14: Change 'If' to 'if' after the comma
p. 271, line -16: Change 'gaol' to 'goal'
p. 275, line 7: change 'measure' to 'measured'
p. 277, line -10: Delete the apostrophe after boils
p. 283, line 2: Change 'chord' to 'cord'
p. 284, line -6: Change CCD to CDD
p. 290, line 4: Change 'spins' to 'spin'
p. 291, line 6: Change 23 to 26
p. 292, line 1: Change 'loose' to 'lose'
p. 292, line 10: Change 23 to 26
p. 292, line -14: Change 'quote' to 'quoted'
p. 293, line 2: Change 'deoxyhemoglobin' to 'deoxyhaemoglobin'
p. 294, line -14 (Problem 8.4, 2nd line): Change 'measure' to
'measured'
p. 299, line 3: Change 'spin' to 'spins'
p. 302, line -7: Change 'nova' to 'novas'
p. 302, line -3: Change 'nova' to 'novas'
p. 303, footnote 6, 1st line: Insert 'the' after 'with'
p. 303, footnote 6, 4th line: Change 'surprising' to
'surprisingly'
p. 304, line 19: After Without insert going into
p. 304, line -17: Delete 'is'
p. 304, line -9: Change 'reduced' to 'reduce'
p. 304, line -4: Change 'obtain' to 'obtained'
p. 308, line -6: Insert 'a' after 'be'
p. 310, line 4: Insert 'a' before 'mass'
p. 310, line 5: Change 'opens' to 'open'
p. 312, line 10: Capitalize 'm' in 'majorana' and change
'neurinos'
to 'neutrinos '
p. 313, line 8: Change the first 'that' to 'than'
p. 316, line -4: Change 'colours' to 'colour'
p. 319, line 7: Change 'boson' to 'bosons'
p. 320, line 14: Change 'to' to 'too '
p. 322, line 6: Change 'cosmologist' to 'cosmologists'
p. 324, line 23: Change 'produce' to 'produced'
p. 324, footnote 18, 1st line: After 'account' add 'for'
p. 324, footnote 18, 2nd line: Change 'form' to 'formed'
p. 325, line -16: The symbol before -nucleon is in wrong font
p. 325, line -10: Change 'build' to 'built'
p. 328, line 11: Italicize the subscript r in ½r
p. 328, line 15: Change 'supernova' to 'supernovas'
p. 328, line -15 Change 'yield' to 'yielded'
p. 328, line -6: Change the comma after quantities
p. 329, line -14: Add 'so' after 'do'
p. 330, line 10: Change 'outburst' to 'outbursts'
p. 331, line 17: Change 'technique' to 'technique'
p. 333, line 11: After 'possible' add 'to'
p. 335, line -9: capitalize a to A to read: be required
(~300 A)
p. 336, line 3: Change 'power' to 'current'
p. 337, line 4: Change 'system' to 'facility'
p. 337, lines -14 & -6 & -3: Change 'ma' throughout to
'mA'
p. 349, line 1: Change 'greed' to 'agree'
p. 357, line 4: Change 'mesons' to 'meson'
p. 362, line 3: After 'side' insert 'of'
p. 373, line 7: Change 'manifest' to 'manifests'
p. 378, line 3: In left column, after Tesla insert = 1
T
p. 392, Appendix E.3.2, 10th column, 3rd row entry for Z = 78 :
Change 'Platinium' to 'Platinum'
p. 395, line -4: Change capital C to lower case
p. 399, line -3: Change 'effect' to 'affect'
p. 400, line -14 (Problem 2.14, 2nd line): Change 'numbers' to
'number'
p. 415, line -9: Change 'valance' to 'valence'
p. 419, line 4: Change 'handiness' to 'handedness'
p. 421, line 1: Change 'charge' to 'charged'
p. 424, line -5: Change 'given' to 'give'
p. 428, line 1: Insert 'NA' to read: where NA is
Avogadro's number
p. 438, line 15 (Entry for Frois, 2nd line): Change 'Bolgona' to
'Bologna'
p. 438, line 18: Change 'Gaziorowicz' to 'Gasiorowicz'
p. 438, line -13: Change 'Actnides' to 'Actinides'
p. 439, line 18 (Entry for Orito): Insert (ed.)
p. 439, line -3 (Entry for Wu): Change 'fears' to 'years'
p. 441, line -2: Change the comma to a period
p. 442, line -17:
Change 'Das' to 'A. Das'
p. 442, l. -13 Insert initial 'B.' before 'Povh' and
change 'Rih' to 'Rith'
p. 442, line -9: Change
'solutions' manual' to 'Solutions Manual'
p. 442, line -7: Change 'solutions' manual' to 'Solutions Manual'
p. 448, right column, line -5: Change [italic vee ] to [Greek nu
]
p. 451, right column, line -17: reverse the
accent on the e
p. 452, right column, line 6, Delete entry for Supernova: page 316
End
of list
Comments
p. 442, line -16: There is
now a 2nd (2003) edition of the book by book by Das and Ferbel.
p. 442, line -13: There is now a 6th (2008)
edition of the book by Povh et al.
Last updated
January 2011