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Title: exercises do not reflect chapter material
Review: My problem with this book is that the review questions at the end of each chapter use terminology and concepts that are not introduced in the chapter's text. Often the concepts in the text are referred to with different terminology in the questions, making them unnecessarily confusing. For example, in 2.3 "particle density" is used to refer (I assume) to the concept of "solids density" presented in the chapter. Also in the same problem, the concept of "air-filled porosity" is used but is not presented anywhere else in the text. There are many such examples to be found. I found myself wondering if this were a ploy to force people to buy the solutions manual.
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