Problem 1894

Summary: Error in normalization factor of equation 12.19
Product: Documentation Reporter: Pablo Botas <botas.phys>
Component: Physics Reference ManualAssignee: alexander.howard
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: P4    
Version: 10.2   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   

Description Pablo Botas 2016-09-23 16:40:51 CEST
Hi,

I think that in chapter 12, equation 12.19 should be changed from:

$ f(T) = \left(\frac{1}{T_{min}}-\frac{1}{T_{max}}\right)\frac{1}{T^2} $

to:

$ f(T) = \left(\frac{T_{min}T_{max}}{T_{min}-T_{max}}\right)\frac{1}{T^2} $

The factor $\left(\frac{1}{T_{min}}-\frac{1}{T_{max}}\right)$ is the normalization of $\frac{1}{T^2}$ between $T_{min}$ and $T_{max}$ and it should be dividing. The implementation in the code is obviously correct.

Thanks!!

Pablo Botas
Comment 1 alexander.howard 2017-12-06 14:30:55 CET
This has been verified and will be fixed in the upcoming public release of the documentation for v10.4 on the 8th December 2017.

Thanks for pointing this out and feel free to notify us of any other inconsistencies/mistakes in the documentation!