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=== Technical Writing ===
 
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* [[media:Learned.pdf|A Short Guide to Technical Writing]] by W. M. Learned and the ChEn faculty.  This guide is required reading for Senior Laboratory.
 
* [[media:Learned.pdf|A Short Guide to Technical Writing]] by W. M. Learned and the ChEn faculty.  This guide is required reading for Senior Laboratory.

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Introduction

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Tutorials

Matlab Tutorials

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  • Matlab Basics
    • The command window
    • Defining variables
    • Basic commands and commonly used functions
    • creating m-files
    • MATLAB's Path
  • Plotting
    • X-Y Plots
    • Surface plots
    • Bar charts and Histograms
  • Input/Output in Matlab. File input/output, saving variables to disk and loading variables, exporting figures, etc.

Tutorials on numerical analysis

Each tutorial includes a discussion of algorithm(s) and some examples, including MATLAB code.


Technical Writing

  • LyX - a powerful cross-platform package for technical writing.