Research Projects

Guidelines

The idea of a Research Project is to tackle a topic borrowed from research frontiers (such as from recently published in journal articles) while spending more time on researching literature, doing computation, and compiling a report than it is usually required for simple homework problems. When you have enough results to tell a coherent story, you should end the Research Project by writing (in a clear writing style, obeying the rules of grammar and spelling) and submitting a Report. The Report should be understandable to a person who has not done the assignment.

Format of the report for the midterm project

The midterm project should be finalized as a paper similar to research articles dealing with Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics posted every day on arxiv.org. The format of the paper mimicking this is:

• Title, Name of the person and affiliation, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Dicussion, Conclusion, and References.
• Paper should be typed in two column style. For this you can use:
  • LaTeX using RevTeX style through PHYS824 template and the embedded EPS figure for this example. You can also find more examples of typing mathematical formulas in my Math into LaTeX: How to Beautify Equations (and the embedded EPS figure).
  • Open Office version of Microsoft Word (Word itself is not advisable since you need additional programs, such as MathType, on the top of it to be able to type equations).

Midterm Research Project

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