Fall Semester 2000
This homework assignment is geared toward ducument preparation in HTML and LaTeX(2e). Some help documents which are directly related to this homework set is available. For HTML and webpage setup try this link; for LaTeX, try this URL.
Make a homepage for yourself in your class account according to these instructions. The page must contain, at very least,
Beyond these requirements and a request to keep things in reasonably good taste, you have full creative license and a mandate to have fun....
You need not submit anything here. The class grading scripts will seek out your homepage for review by the grader and instructor. Please make sure that your file permissions are set so that your web page is publicly available. If you need help, try this class resources link
This exercise will introduce LaTex2e. It will cover the basics that you may want for disseminating the results of scientific research, such as creating text, math equations and figures.
An approximation of a Dirac delta-function is
(This is a good represntation so long as there is no relevant physics or information on scales smaller than 1/n.)
Plot this function with n = 250 for values of x between -0.1 and +0.1. Label the axes and dump the plot to a postscript file. (Use any plotting software you want. If you choose to do this with SM you might want to look here for directions on how to send output to a postscript file.)
Make a simple LaTeX file with a brief paragraph containing the above equation. Also include your postscript plot-file as a figure with a short caption. The file latex-simple.tex in the examples directory of the main class account gives an example of how to make a figure with caption out of a pre-existing ("encapsulated") postscript file. (Please do not attempt to put equations in the caption.) Generate postscript, then convert it to a PDF file using
ps2pdf dirac.ps dirac.pdfAs in exercise 1, nothing needs to be submitted for this exercise. Instead, set up a link to the PDF file in your class homepage developed in exercise 1. Have the link labeled clearly, so that the browser displays the phrase "Dirac delta function", which, when selected by a browser's user, displays the PDF file.
Hint: you may find it useful to look at some of the other example LaTeX files in the ~p5720/examples directory.
(Hint: in LaTeX the little-delta symbol is \delta -- this is also true in SM when you make axis labels; SM can generate many of (La)TeX's math symbols.)
Write your C.V. (this is the academic community's name for a job resume) in LaTeX and convert it to a PDF file. You can start from scratch or modify the template in ~p5720/examples/latex-cv-template.tex. The contents of the C.V. may be completely fictitious, but it might be a good idea to create a working job resume in LaTeX irrespective of what you choose to submit for this exercise.
Note: We strongly recommend starting with the template file in the class examples directory. LaTeX is a little rough with "overly formatted" things.
As in exercise 2, please make a link in your physics account homepage to the PDF file. Have your browser reference the link as either your "C.V." or "resume".