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My template for physics lab reports
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\documentclass[twocolumn, letterpaper, 10pt, twoside, draft]{article} | |
%\usepackage[english]{babel} % English language/hyphenation | |
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm} % Math packages | |
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} | |
\usepackage{graphicx} | |
\usepackage{caption} | |
\usepackage{subcaption} | |
\usepackage{pdfpages} | |
\usepackage{url} | |
\usepackage[hmarginratio=1:1,top=32mm,left=18mm,columnsep=20pt]{geometry} % Document margins | |
\usepackage{titlesec} | |
\usepackage{abstract} | |
\usepackage{booktabs} % Horizontal rules in tables | |
\usepackage{float} % Required for tables and figures in the multi-column environment - they need to be placed in specific locations with the [H] (e.g. \begin{table}[H]) | |
\usepackage{paralist} % Used for the compactitem environment which makes bullet points with less space between them | |
\usepackage{enumitem} % \begin{itemize}[noitemsep] | |
\newcommand{\horrule}[1]{\rule{\linewidth}{#1}} % Create horizontal rule command with 1 argument of height | |
\usepackage{fancyhdr} % Headers and footers | |
\pagestyle{fancy} % All pages have headers and footers | |
\fancyhead{} % Blank out the default header | |
%\fancyfoot{} % Blank out the default footer | |
\titleformat{\section}{\large\normalfont\itshape}{\thesection}{}{} | |
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{4pt}{0pt} | |
\titleformat{\subsection}{\small\normalfont\bf}{\thesubsection}{}{} | |
\titleformat{\subsubsection}{\small\normalfont\bf}{\thesubsection}{}{} | |
\renewcommand{\abstractname}{} % clear the title | |
\renewcommand{\absnamepos}{empty} % originally center, stops loss of space | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
% My Commands | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
%\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2} | |
\makeatletter | |
\g@addto@macro\@floatboxreset\centering | |
\makeatother | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
% Blinds | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
\usepackage{blindtext} | |
\usepackage{lipsum} | |
\newcommand{\abstractlipsum}{\lipsum[66]} | |
\newcommand{\blindtable}{ | |
\begin{table}[H] | |
\caption{Experiment Conditions} | |
\begin{tabular}{lc} \toprule | |
Constant & Value \\ \midrule | |
number of segments & 10 \\ | |
Resistance from series inductors & $25.5\Omega \pm 2\%$ \\ | |
Inductance per segment & $1mH \pm 2\%$ \\ | |
Capacitance per segment & $2.4\mu F \pm 2\%$ \\ | |
$R_G$ & $163.4\Omega \pm 3.5\%$ \\ \bottomrule | |
\end{tabular} | |
\end{table} | |
} | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
% Globals | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
\newcommand{\coursenum}{num} | |
\newcommand{\thetitle}{Title} | |
\newcommand{\theday}{\today} | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
\fancyhead[C]{University of University $\bullet$ \date{\theday} $\bullet$ Phys \coursenum} % Custom header text | |
%\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage} % Custom footer text | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
% TITLE SECTION | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
\title{\vspace{-10mm}\fontsize{25pt}{10pt}\selectfont\textbf{\thetitle}\vspace{-3mm}} % Article title | |
\author{ | |
\large | |
{\textsc{Author}}\\[2mm] | |
} | |
\date{} | |
%---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
\begin{document} | |
\twocolumn[ | |
\begin{@twocolumnfalse} | |
\maketitle | |
\thispagestyle{fancy} % All pages have headers and footers | |
\vspace{-7mm} | |
\begin{abstract} | |
\abstractlipsum | |
\end{abstract} | |
\end{@twocolumnfalse} | |
] | |
\section*{Introduction} | |
\lipsum[7] | |
\section*{Theory} | |
\blindmathpaper | |
\section*{Apparatus} | |
The apparatus for this experiment consisted of: | |
\blindlist{compactitem}[5] | |
\begin{figure}[H] | |
\caption{Apparatus} | |
%\includegraphics[width=.5\textwidth]{images/apparatus.png} | |
\label{fig:Apparatus} | |
\end{figure} | |
\section*{Procedure} | |
The following steps were done in this lab. | |
\blindlist{compactenum}[10] | |
\section*{Data} | |
\blindtable | |
\section*{Results} | |
\lipsum[6] | |
\section*{Discussion} | |
\lipsum[40-43] | |
\begin{thebibliography}{1} | |
\bibitem{manual} | |
Physics \coursenum~Laboratory Manual, | |
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of University, 2018. | |
\end{thebibliography} | |
% \newpage | |
% \onecolumn | |
% \includepdf[pages=-]{data/analysis.pdf} | |
\end{document} |
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