Slap-Happy Textbook Author?
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quasigeostrophyFar below the outer fringes of the cloud of electrons lies the atom's tiny, dense core, held together by the strongest force in the universe.
That's how my chemistry textbook author starts out the final chapter of the book, Nuclear Reactions and Their Applications. It's one that is actually covered in the first semester class, out of order from the book, but I hadn't read it in my catching up so far. That first sentence sounds a little bit Carl Sagan-ey to me, like this author was definitely ready to wrap up this book. I've already posted about his apparent fixation with pee in various chapter problems. Let's see if (and how, if so) he can work in urine in a nuclear chemistry sense... :-)
That's how my chemistry textbook author starts out the final chapter of the book, Nuclear Reactions and Their Applications. It's one that is actually covered in the first semester class, out of order from the book, but I hadn't read it in my catching up so far. That first sentence sounds a little bit Carl Sagan-ey to me, like this author was definitely ready to wrap up this book. I've already posted about his apparent fixation with pee in various chapter problems. Let's see if (and how, if so) he can work in urine in a nuclear chemistry sense... :-)
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Date: 2006-08-04 08:09 pm (UTC)