Errors Found in the Book


Book Title: An Introduction to Computational Physics, 2nd Edition
Author: Tao Pang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Place: Cambridge, UK
Publication Date: February 2006
ISBN: 0-521-82569-5 (hardback)
List Price: $70
Other Info: 402 Pages; 246 x 189 mm; 37 Line Diagrams; 3 Tables; 169 Exercises; Bibliography; and Index
List of Errors:
  1. Page 130: Neither the call to method order(x,index) (Line 15) nor the method order (double x[], int index[]) should be there, per Eq. (5.40) (See the updated program LinearEq.java online);
  2. Page 148, Line 16, "c[n-k] = -tr(s[k])/k" should be "c[n-k] = -tr(mm(a,s[k-1])/k"; Line 20 "c[0] = -tr(mm(a,s[n-1])" should be "c[0] = -tr(mm(a,s[n-1])/n" (See the updated program Faddeev.java online).
  3. Page 238, Lines 1 and 2: "g[i]" and "g[i+1]" should be "v[i]" and "v[i+1]".

Please send your reports on additional errors to: pang@physics.unlv.edu.