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#30998: "So many of the things we take for granted everyday relies"

Should be rely.--Charles Blaine

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21-Feb-08
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#31000: "In the first section of the book,Basic Electricity, we..."

Needs a space.--Charles Blaine

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#31001: "Voltage is defined as the difference in electrical potential between two points in an electrical circuit. It is a measure of the electrical e...more...
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#29623: Figure 2.1 and 2.2 are equations not figures, you don't use a figure to do calculations, you use an equation. I would kindly suggest that y...more...
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#29826: I'd suggest changing the layout of figure 2.2. The first time I looked at it I thought that Power = Current / Voltage because the Current box...more...
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04-Nov-07
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#30997: Unless I am misunderstanding something, 9 * 1.8mA is not 9.8mV. It's 16.2mV.--Charles Blaine

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21-Feb-08
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#33841: Second sentence is unclear "He proposed that the discovery
was centered around dissimilar metal of the knife. "

Great book!--abhi

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08-Aug-08
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#37298: On pp 102 & 103, the graphic incorrectly labels the filament as "fila".

--Alec R.

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26-Jan-09
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#45977: para 4 "Anit-mony"--Roy MacLean

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#41920: Doubled word. "Similiarly, you create a a p-type semiconductor"--Jason Hansen

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#41921: Electrons should be singular in the following sentence or the sentence needs some other changes. "It then begins using this energy to attra...more...
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#41922: I don't believe both sides will have extra electrons as described in this sentence. "When this happens, we end up with an excess of electro...more...
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#35398: Thomas Watson is not the inventor of the transistor. Neither Thomas A. (co-inventor of the telephone) nor Thomas J. (the man who made IBM use...more...
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22-Oct-08
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#41923: "...and the data outputsput of each flip-flop..."

Outputsput should be output--Jason Hansen

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#30019: This sentence is not correct: However, some parts of the processor may work faster than others meaning that some data may be sitting id...more...
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17-Dec-07
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#30020: Missing an "s" at the end:

One problem with traces on a printed circuit board is that
they are purely two dimension.--Kyle Oba

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#30021: Missing an "s" after "get":

This presents a problem when there get to be
a large number of traces—--Kyle Oba

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#30022: "is the one" is not proper:

RAM, or Random Access Memory, is the one of the most important parts
of the whole computer system--Kyle Oba

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17-Dec-07
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#46070: should be SiO2, not SO2

also last line: "bent" not "bended"--Roy MacLean

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#41927: "...within in..." should just be "...within..." In contrast, today’s hard drives boast storage spaces of 300GB or more, within in a conside...more...
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#41928: Double word "...with with..." These platters are generally made of aluminum or, more recently ceramic, and are coated with with a magnetize...more...
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#41929: Doubled words (sort of) "...as been has been..." More recently, a separate read head as been has been created which uses a small piece of m...more...
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#41931: Double word "... as as ..." Above this speed, some tricks are employed as as the use of special (and more expensive) ball bearings to balan...more...
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27-Dec-09
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#31196: The contents are incomplete and not comprehensible. Is it some printing errors? " CD-RW Burners Use a phase change medium, which melts ...more...
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11-Mar-08
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#41936: Double word "... of of ..." This type of of PSK is known as Quadrature PSK since four phases are used. It’s possible to use more (8) or les...more...
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27-Dec-09
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#46104: First para: ungrammatical sentences (and elsewhere too - don't these books get proof-read?)--Roy MacLean

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24-Dec-10
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#31244: The word 'electeomagnetic' should be electromagnetic--Kwan Hon Luen

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15-Mar-08
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#31243: The word suck should be replaced as such.--Kwan Hon Luen

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#47184: First paragraph: ungrammatical sentence: "Bohr found that ... the electrons had the orbits had discrete energies, meaning that only certain e...more...
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12-Jun-11
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#42165: Third word should be 'possess' not 'posses'--Lachlan Dowding

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#48520: In the penultimate paragraph, second line we have: "Hydrogen, with atomic number 1, has one 1one electron in this shell". There are too ma...more...
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13-Jan-12
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#46931: That's 2 clever by half and 2x2 clever 4 me. Thakns!--iYNgWdEzZNFBhK

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