Corrections and additional comments to the book

Ocean Waves and Oscillating Systems:

Linear interactions including wave energy extraction

by Johannes Falnes (ISBN # 0-521-78211-2)

Cambridge University Press, 2002

[The corrections/comments, as well as the list of nomenclature, are applicable also to the electronic issue (2002) and to the paperback issue (2005)]

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For a list of mathematical symbols for physical quantities, click on this scanned PDF file.
Moreover, here is also a LaTeX source TEX file for the list.

For a list of corrections and comments [version 2013], click on this scanned PDF file,
or on this TEX file.

It is recommended that readers of the book make a printout of the lists, or download them to their own computers.

Corrections and comments related to certain pages of the book have been inserted into the list at times shown in the following table:

Year/date

Correction on page

Comment to page

2002

vii[Contents], 83, 112, 117, 181, 184, 214

 

2003-12-30

131, 132, 133, 135, 169, 194, 211, 273

201, 263

2005

x[Preface], 11, 18, 35, 67, 76, 103, 110, 115, 117, 123, 207, 211, 256, 260, 275

26, 185, 201

2006-07-06

142, 166, 272

 

2007-08-15

107, 207

57, 205

2008-02-11

53, 63, 80, 110, 111

 

2010-12-17

9, 11, 20, 32, 76, 79, 83, 85, 111, 120, 138, 148, 186, 192, 229, 242, 245, 250, 254

59, 62, 73, 74, 117

2012-03-13

78, 203, 208, 209

 

2013-04-30

210, 215

75, 175, 215, 244, 247-250

     

Corrections and comments related to certain pages of the book have been inserted into the list at times shown above.

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Readers who discover additional errors or misprints are encouraged to report by
e-mail to johannes.falnes(at)ntnu.no

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