You should, however, purchase the one your professor recommends for the reasons said in the earlier posts. I think the US versions of both the books will be identical but they may have different page numbers. If that doesn't work, email me and I will send an electronic copy of the missing material. In 1997 he was awarded the Millikan Medal by the American Association of. If it becomes a problem, I suggest you contact the publisher, and request a clean copy. Griffiths is a Consulting Editor of The American Journal of Physics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. I suppose the defective copies will be adequate for most users, but I am acutely embarrassed, and I do apologize. I am pleased that Pearson is putting out lower-priced (paperback) editions for the international market (given that the hardback American editions are so obscenely overpriced), but I cannot understand why they do not simply reprint the correct version verbatim. There are probably other errors I did not notice. Beware: I am appalled to discover that defective copies of Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd and 4th editions) and Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition), are selling in Europe, under imprints like "Pearson New International Edition." Some covers show a lightning bolt, or a jig-saw puzzle, whole chapters are sometimes missing (or in the wrong order), and the index contains nonsensical entries.
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