An electronic textbook has the luxury of being able to correct inevitable typos and mistakes prior to the release of an updated edition. This page reports such corrections. Page ii has information on when this PDF file was produced relative to its initial release on eScholarship.
Changes in the text are marked by a red square which is hyperlinked (in electronic versions) to an entry below. The page number in the entry is also hyperlinked for easy return.
Page ix: Demonstration of correction scheme. The page reference returns to the invocation.
Page 20: Corrected erroneous energy value for Taiwan in Figure 2.1 (error in Wikipedia table).
Page 21: Corrected erroneous energy value for Taiwan in Figure 2.2 (error in Wikipedia table).
Page 64: Added Mt. Everest to Figure 4.5.
Page 342: Replaced political musings specific to the U.S. with a more general statement.