/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.4235716]

/sci/ I was wondering, is there any difference between the US version and the international version of a textbook? And are the end of the chapter problems the same too?

[Anonymous No.4235738]

the us textbooks are way easier so that us students dont feel so dumb

[Anonymous No.4235740]

the us textbooks come with free bacon

[None !EKFQOBUFnQ No.4235748]

>>4235716
US versions misspell "colour."

[Anonymous No.4235753]

I've been wondering about this, maybe they use imperial units US textbooks? I know I've seen a Statics handbook (Hibbeler) edition with imperial units - had the exact same problems as my own copy except for the shit tier units.

[Anonymous No.4235754]

no, nothing, it's just about controlling markets for maximum profit.

[Anonymous No.4235785]

universities in the US have this absurd system which allows professors to make money off their students

it goes a bit as following:

1. make book
2. force your students to buy your book, even if you're never going to use it
3 ca-CHING!!! already profit!
4. every year, change the layout of the book. don't actually change the content, just switch question 8b on page 42 with 3d on page 34. since you give assignments as "make exercise 3d on page 34" students can't rely on books from previous years, and thus can't sell/buy them from each other
5. ca-ching-ching!!!
6. of course, you can still sell your book outside the US, but that money goes mainly to the distributor, not to you (though you still get a percentage- ca-ching-ching-CHING!!!). and you don't want them to transgress on the sweet milking-college-kids scheme you've got going back home, so those books can't be sold in the US
7. ???
8. Calculus: 58th edition

[Anonymous No.4235828]

>>4235785
My country's (RSA) professors are more full of shit than your country's.

One of my modules was obligatory for all first years. They actually included the cost of their own textbook in our course fees and just handed it to us on the first day. What really pissed me is that everything in that course is general knowledge, never even opened the textbook.

[fizixfag !!2lAY/u9qu1I No.4235851]

>>4235753
All US physics texts I've ever used (I am a US physics student btw) were strictly SI units.

I'm sure in sociology and what not, they express things in different units when required.

For example, population density:

people/mile^2

people/km^2

[Anonymous No.4235926]

>>4235851
>physics texts
Yeah, Hibbeler's Statics is tailored towards Engineers, engineers have to use both AE and SI units, so...I guess they make some of the American Engineering textbooks with mostly AE units.

Anyway I can distinctly remember a problem being posted out of that textbook on /sci/ this year. I remember it because I was procrastinating on /sci/ while doing that problem- it was a weird moment, like the Universe was telling me to stop fucking around and do my homework...I never got to it.

[Anonymous No.4235977]

>>4235716
Differences:
Spelling
Unit system.
US version is censored, and full of support the troops, red white and blue. 9-11, etc

[Anonymous No.4236292]

They are just the same textbooks, but sometimes uses lower quality paper and ink.

And like >>4235785 said. They changed the edition number to make $$ on their starving students.

[Anonymous No.4236546]

Isn't this the only text book you need in America?

[Anonymous No.4236561]

The only thing I ever noticed were SI vs Imperial.

Even the questions were the same. Instead of 10 ft it was 10 m though.

I'm sure this isn't universal though.

[Anonymous No.4236629]

>>4236546
No, you sometimes see wealthy industrialists with this.