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An Error in Ganot's “Physics”

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IN your issue of February 19 (p. 361), E. Douglas Archibald calls attention to a typical error in Ganot's “Physics,” 10th edition, p. 325, and assumed that it had run through the ten editions. If he had taken the pains to look back to previous editions the formula would have appeared right, viz.:—.

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EMERY, F. An Error in Ganot's “Physics”. Nature 31, 505 (1885). https://doi.org/10.1038/031505b0

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