My Father's Watch

My Father's Watch:Aspects of the physical world A textbook published 1974 by Prentice Hall, NJ. Authors Donald Holcomb and Philip Morrison.

History

Course

According to the book's preface, PM and DFH taught a course for those who would only take one course in the physical sciences,

Publishing

John Wiley & Sons was also interested in publishing (see reply to Wiley, August 20, 1969). Prentice Hall arranged the publishing, with WHG, in charge of editing, and BM managing. DFH also thanks DE for publishing the preliminary version on schedule. There was a back and forth between publisher and author about supplementary materials and addenda, including answers and solutions, teacher suggestions, unpublished "interesting asides," demo suggestions, further reading suggestions, AV aids or suggestions, and a test question bank. In his marginal notes on a letter from the publisher, DFH writes that he desires most of these ideas to be included in the textbook itself. In the fall of 1969, just as preliminary copies were being sent to eager college bookstores, the publisher asked the authors for a questionnaire to accompan

Reviews

Reviewed by Professor Manka of Sam Houston State U. June 1970, "the best we have received to date" according to the editor, WHG. Albert Bork, UC Irvine, 1969.

Use of text

Faculty from other colleges used MFW. Prof. Donald Yennie and Silverman, also at Cornell used it in Fall 1969. Hans von Baeyer wrote to the publisher with a letter about how he would use MFW Fall 1970.

Prentice Hall provided a list of college bookstores that ordered multiples of the text between 10/01/1969 and 2/28/1970

Arizona (Tuscon campus), 20.

Student bookstore at AZ (Tuscon campus), 36.

Occidental Col. bookstore, CA, 150.

Oglethorpe U. Bookshop, GA, 84.

Cornell Campus Store, NY, 75.

Triangle Book Shop (Cornell), NY, 50.

Sam Houston State College, TX, 50.

Abbreviations

DE

David Esner, Director of Special Projects at Prentice Hall

MFW

My Father's Watch

DFW

Donald Frank Holcomb

PM

Philip Morrison

WHG

William H. Grimshaw, Physics Editor at Prentice Hall

BM

Bob Melendes, head of Project Management Group at Prentice Hall