If you are a professor reading this, you face a dilemma. You want students to learn, but you do not want them to cheat. A best practice noted in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society is to:
As one professor from the University of Washington (where Wallace taught) famously said: “The solutions manual is a mirror. It shows you what you don’t know. Don’t mistake the reflection for the real thing.” If you are a professor reading this, you face a dilemma
A simple Google search for the exact keyword will lead to sites like issuu.com, docplayer.net, or various .edu personal pages. Many of these PDFs are scanned copies of the 1980s edition manual. Warning: These files are often incomplete (missing Chapters 5-7), contain OCR errors, or, worse, are trojans/malware disguised as PDFs. Without a solutions manual, a student might spend
Before diving into the solutions manual, let’s acknowledge the source material. First published in 1977 and now in its second edition (with significant contributions from Ronald J. Stouffer), this text is unique because it bridges the gap between descriptive meteorology and physical reasoning. Without a solutions manual
Key chapters that cause the most demand for a solutions manual include:
Without a solutions manual, a student might spend four hours on a single dynamics problem, unsure if their mistake is conceptual or algebraic.