Physics textbook errata - Kittel
My only errata for this book comes from a letter from Eric Roberts, who used the book as a student at Sam Houston State University. He composed a summary of errors that showed up in his class and sent them to Dr. Kittel. You can download the wordperfect file for the letter here. It should be noted that Dr. Kittel sent a prompt and courteous reply indicating that he was informing the publishers of the errors for correction in the next printing. He responds to the question about the boundary value problem on page 187 with "The fourth, the boundary condition problem, refers to a periodic boundary condition imposed on the whole ring, and I believe is OK as set." In chapter 2 on page 49, the summary should contain the correction:
On page 122 in equation 25, the final set of parenthesis in the integral for U should be:
There are round-off problems with problem 2 on page 92, giving an answer of 0.956. Eric's
class obtained:
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in which both the numerator and the denominator have
