Written and Oral Report and Presentation Resources

Written Summaries

• Sample Paper Template (PDF) and Additional Resources (ZIP - 1MB)
• An Even Simpler "Minimal Example" Template (PDF) and Additional Resources (ZIP)
• Example Paper from Am. J. Physics
• Physical Review Home
• Physical Review Style and Notation Guide (PDF)
• MIT Writing and Communication Center
• Author Information for all APS Jounals
• REVTeX-4 Home Page
  • "REVTeX 4.1 Command and Options Summary (PDF)." American Physical Society, August 2010

Oral Presentations

• Junior Lab Presentation Template (PDF) and  Additional Resources (ZIP)
• Beamer Users Guide for Presentation Slides or Beamer by Example (PDF)
• Advice for Physics Speakers by James C. Garland
• Oral Report Evaluation Form (PDF)
• APS Guidelines for Speakers

LaTeX Tips

• Hypertext Help with LaTeX (a classic, short, introductory text)
• A Wikibook on LaTeX (an up-to-date, comprehensive, and accessible reference)
• List of Mathematical Symbols from the Wikibook on LaTeX.
• The Comprehensive LATEX Symbol List (PDF - 9.3MB) (358 pages)
• Creating a PDF Document using PDFLaTeX
• Other LaTeX Related Information

Some 3rd Party LaTeX Editors for Use on Personal Computers

• For Windows: TeXworks, WinEdt
• For Mac: TeXworks, TexShop, TexMaker
• For Linux: TeXworks, Kile (KDE)

Websites for these programs usually have guides for what other things need to be installed (latex distributions, dvi viewers, math packages, etc)

• Inkscape (free vector graphics drawing program for all)
• Ghostscript (a PostScript Interpreter)
• GSView (a PS Viewer for Windows)
• Asymptote (a vector based drawing language)