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How to Use This Book
This version of the book—available for free in digital form at https://
escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions—is prepared for electronic
viewing: not differentiating between left <strong>and</strong> right pages, <strong>and</strong> thus not
ideal for printing. A two-sided version better-suited for printing is also
available at the aforementioned site. Most graphics in this version are
vector-based <strong>and</strong> can be safely magnified to alarming proportions.
This book makes extensive use of margin space for notes, 1 citations,
figures, tables, <strong>and</strong> captions. Hopefully, the utilization of margins leads
to a smooth reading experience, preventing parenthetical, contextual
information from interrupting the flow of primary text.
References to figures <strong>and</strong> tables, glossary items, citations, chapters <strong>and</strong>
sections, definitions, boxes, equations, etc. are hyperlinked within the
electronic PDF document 2 allowing easy navigation, appearing as blue
text. To help navigate in print versions, references to material outside the
chapter also include page numbers. Note that the page numbering in this
electronic version differs from that in the two-sided print versions. 3
1: Numbered notes point to a specific location
in the text.
Non-numbered notes are general asides relating
to the paragraph.
2: A link to the electronic document is in
the first paragraph, above.
3: . . . due to the two-side rule that new
parts or chapters start on right-side pages,
often leaving empty (even-numbered) pages
The electronic version of this book is far easier to use once figuring out
how to navigate “back” within the PDF viewer, 4 so that a link—or even 4: . . . much like the “back” button in a web
several in a row—may be clicked/tapped, followed by a painless return browser
to the starting point that may be hundreds of pages away. It is therefore
strongly recommended 5 that you figure out how to navigate using 5: Learn how to navigate “back” in your
your viewing platform. For instance, viewing the document in Adobe
Acrobat on a Mac, the back <strong>and</strong> forward functions are accomplished with
PDF viewer to make hyperlinks within the
document more attractive.
cursor/arrow keys as - ← <strong>and</strong> - → . In Mac Preview, -[ <strong>and</strong> -] go
back <strong>and</strong> forward. Some mouses—especially those for gaming—have
additional buttons that map to forward/backward navigation.
Call-out boxes indicate places where a student might enhance their
invitation to explore
underst<strong>and</strong>ing by engaging in personal exploration. An information
symbol ( i ) in the margin is occasionally used—mostly in Problems
sections—to denote supplemental content that build useful contextual
links to the real world but may otherwise obscure what the problem
seeks. A caution symbol ( ) appears when an argument is being put Beware of dog.
forth that is likely faulty or nuanced. Students should be careful to avoid
literal acceptance of these points <strong>and</strong> work to underst<strong>and</strong> the subtleties
of the argument.
i contextual information
This electronic version contains a Changes <strong>and</strong> Corrections section that
lists any modifications since the original release—the relevant dates being
provided on page ii. Within the text, a red square marks the location
of a change, the square being hyperlinked to the corresponding entry
describing the change, which itself has a hyperlinked page reference
Try it! Click on the red square!
© 2021 T. W. Murphy, Jr.; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Lic.;
Freely available at: https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions.