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  • Amusing Errors in Physics Textbooks

    These ones didn't quite seem in place for the Physics Textbook Errata List

    Study Guide to Accompany 'Principles in Physics' - Gordon and Serway
    Harcourt-Brace, 1994, p. 36.
    The SI unit of mass is the hologram.

    from Jim Glass:
    CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, Student Edition, 16th Edition
    edited by Samuel M. Shelby, PhD
    Published by Chemical Rubber Company
    Copyright 1968
    page 382, under DERIVATIVES in the calculus section:
    d sin(u) / dx = -(du/dx) cos(u)
    d cos(u) / dx = (du/dx) sin(u)
    i.e. - the signs are opposite the correct ones, however, this mistake doesn't occur in either the 15th or 17th editions