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https://www.physicsclassroom.com/Physics-Interactives/Newtons-Laws/Atwoods-Machine/Atwoods-Machine-Interactive

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Lab 4

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for formatting your lab.

A couple guides on how to create the two-column layout & equations in Word:

https://www.gcflearnfree.org/word2013/columns/1/

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https://www.wikihow.com/Insert-Equations-in-Microsoft-Word

A formal lab should look publishable

Write paragraphs with full sentences. The lab handout should be your guide and each point should be touched on, but you should not write the question numbers (nor letters) from the handout into your lab report. Write it so that a 100-level physics student could understand what you've done and why.

Check out actual physics papers on arxiv.org

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to see what publishable material looks like. Be warned, these papers are written so that only people in the specific subfield at the graduate level and above can understand them (to be honest, 1st and 2nd year grad students can't understand most of these). The point is to look at how they are organized and formatted.

Citations

You are required to cite at least two sources. Your textbook is one obvious option, my lectures are another (you can format similarly to citing a conference presentation). Feel free to look through the physics resource list for more. What things are you just taking to be true (definitions, equations)? Cite the place where you got them from.

Use any style that you are comfortable with (APA or MLS or another standard, footnotes or a bibliography). You are encouraged to look up the professional standard in whatever subfield you are most interested in, and use that style. It must be neat and formal (e.g. "Ms. B's lecture yesterday" would NOT be acceptable).

Typesetting

Options:

It must be fully typed, and while Word is fine, if you want to learn to write complicated mathematical notation with ease, I strongly recommend using TeX (pronounced "tech" like "technology"). I believe it is the easiest and most convenient tool for typesetting math. It is a little bit technical, but not beyond your capabilities, and there are tons of online resources -- I have never had a problem with LaTeX that a quick google couldn't solve.

The easiest way to write any code is to find code that someone else has written, copy it, and then tweak it to fit your needs. The .tex version of the uncertainty handout is below. If you are going on in academic STEM fields, you will impress the heck out of everyone with beautifully TeX'd work.

Graphs & Figures:

Neither LaTeX nor Word can create graphs well, so those will need to be produced in another application (like Excel) and then pasted into a Word document or saved as an image (a screen shot is convenient) and inserted into a LaTeX file as a figure.

You should include a picture of your set up or a schematic diagram. Figures can be created with an application (like Powerpoint), or taken from an online source -- you must formally cite your source if you do this.

If all else fails, a clear photograph of an extremely neat and precise drawing/graph that you have made can be used.

LaTeX Resources:

• LaTeX (Links to an external site.) free downloadable software that allows you to work from your computer (instead of from the cloud). Great guide for getting started, but not the most useful help pages for actually writing it.

• ShareLaTeX (Links to an external site.) free online LaTeX editor (create an account with any email address). This is probably the easiest format to work with, as long as you have internet access.

• Another online editor option is Overleaf (Links to an external site.) -- Lenny says it's "a little gentler due to the fact that they have a word-esque editor that you can use

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• The ShareLaTeX guide (Links to an external site.) is very useful for when you don't know how to do something. For example, how to add an abstract (Links to an external site.) .

• When something isn't working, I recommend just googling the specific thing you're having trouble with, like "latex percent symbol". There are tons of support forums and almost every question or problem already has an answer available.

• Uncertainty Handout (.tex) Note that the graphics won't work without the original graphics files, and the symbol "%" makes something into a comment: that is, something that you can look at when you're doing the nitty gritty editing but that won't be displayed in the final pdf. (If you want the actual symbol "%" to be displayed in your final pdf, you must write "\%" into your code.)