{"id":33,"date":"2019-08-29T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/binaryopus.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2019-10-01T00:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:59:49","slug":"latex-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binaryopus.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"$\\LaTeX$ Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the past 15 years, I’ve been teaching chemistry classes as the local community college. Once of the challenges was finding a utility to easily format equations, chemical formulas, problem sets and orbital diagrams etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case word or many of the other WYSIWYG utilities never really cut it. When I started teaching 15 years ago, I was always wrestling with Word to format my tests and problem sets and they never quite looked write. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I went back to school for my computer systems engineering degree, I was introduced to \" \LaTeX \" and haven’t looked back. Latex is a document typesetting system that enables you code a document in using the $ \\TeX $ and $\\LaTeX$ languages and compile it into a published document. It’s available for free at https:\/\/www.latex-project.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Windows version is available at https:\/\/miktex.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve written $\\LaTeX$ template that I use for the template of my course. The original document is just a plain old text document that I then compile with the pdflatex utility to build the pdf file. The template is available at https:\/\/github.com\/tdean1991\/latex-syllabus-template<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, here is an example of a dimensional analysis problem and written in the typesetting language and the final formatted version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\\begin{equation}56.6 \\: \\cancel{g \\: Ca} \\times \\frac{1 \\:\n\\cancel{mol \\: Ca}}{40.08 \\: \\cancel{g \\: Ca}} \\times \\frac{1 \\: \n\\cancel{mol \\: Ca_3N_2}}{3 \\: \\cancel{mol \\: Ca}} \\times \n\\frac{148.26 \\: g \\: Ca_3N_2}{1 \\cancel{mol \\: Ca_3N_2}} = 69.8 \\: g \n\\: Ca_3N_2\\end{equation} <\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(1) <\/span>   <\/span>\" \begin{equation*}56.6 \: \cancel{g \: Ca} \times \frac{1 \: \cancel{mol \: Ca}}{40.08 \: \cancel{g \: Ca}} \times \frac{1 \: \cancel{mol \: Ca_3N_2}}{3 \: \cancel{mol \: Ca}} \times \frac{148.26 \: g \: Ca_3N_2}{1 \cancel{mol \: Ca_3N_2}} = 69.8 \: g \: Ca_3N_2\end{equation*} \"<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or for formatting chemical equations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\\ce{CO2 + C -> 2 CO}
\\ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-}<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\" \ce{CO2 + C -> 2 CO} \\\ce{Hg^2+ ->[I-] HgI2 ->[I-] [Hg^{II}I4]^2-} \"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or for electron configuration diagrams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

begin{MOdiagram}[names,labels,style=square,distance=6cm]
\\AO(50pt){s}[label={$1s$}]{0}
\\AO(50pt){s}[label={$2s$}]{1}
\\AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$2p_x$,label[y]=$2p_y$,label[z]=$2p_z$]{2;up,up,up}
\\end{MOdiagram} \\begin{MOdiagram}[names,labels,style=square,distance=6cm]
\\AO(50pt){s}[label={$1s$}]{0}
\\AO(50pt){s}[label={$2s$}]{1}
\\AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$2p_x$,label[y]=$2p_y$,label[z]=$2p_z$]{2}
\\AO(50pt){s}[label={$3s$}]{3}
\\AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$3p_x$,label[y]=$3p_y$,label[z]=$3p_z$]{4;up,up,up}
\\end{MOdiagram}<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\" \begin{MOdiagram}[names,labels,style=square,distance=6cm] \AO(50pt){s}[label={$1s$}]{0} \AO(50pt){s}[label={$2s$}]{1} \AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$2p_x$,label[y]=$2p_y$,label[z]=$2p_z$]{2;up,up,up} \end{MOdiagram} \begin{MOdiagram}[names,labels,style=square,distance=6cm] \AO(50pt){s}[label={$1s$}]{0} \AO(50pt){s}[label={$2s$}]{1} \AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$2p_x$,label[y]=$2p_y$,label[z]=$2p_z$]{2} \AO(50pt){s}[label={$3s$}]{3} \AO(50pt){p}[label[x]=$3p_x$,label[y]=$3p_y$,label[z]=$3p_z$]{4;up,up,up} \end{MOdiagram} \"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a learning curve to it but I’ve found that more and more IDEs are supporting the language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For further information I would recommend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a>\"\"\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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