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mcnees / Example2.tex
Created September 3, 2017 01:20
Dirac delta example in PGF/TikZ
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
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mcnees / Example3.tex
Created September 10, 2017 20:39
Shaded hemisphere in perspective using PGF/TikZ
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from
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mcnees / Example4.tex
Last active September 10, 2017 20:54
Shaded hollowed-out sphere
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from
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mcnees / phasediagram.tex
Created September 11, 2017 18:21
Toast / Airplane Wine phase diagram
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from
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mcnees / Example5.tex
Created September 14, 2017 02:40
Shaded cylinder in perspective
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
% Some colors I like. The first six are modified versions of colors from
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mcnees / milkshakeduck.tex
Created September 18, 2017 20:05
Milkshake Duck in LaTeX
% Requires latest version of tikzducks from github
% https://github.com/samcarter8/tikzducks
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usepackage{tikzducks}
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mcnees / RigidRocket.tex
Created October 26, 2017 21:22
Draw a spacetime diagram showing an accelerating rocket with constant proper length.
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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mcnees / BarnAndPole.tex
Created November 26, 2017 18:47
A visual resolution of the barn-and-pole paradox of special relativity.
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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mcnees / Twin.tex
Created November 26, 2017 18:54
Visual resolution of the twin paradox in special relativity
\documentclass[crop=true, border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\usepackage{tikz-3dplot}
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mcnees / apsrev_cite_website.tex
Created September 9, 2019 14:33 — forked from tdwiser/apsrev_cite_website.tex
\documentclass{revtex4-1}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@unpublished{mcnees,
author = {{McNees}, Robert},
title = {Conventions, Definitions, Identities, and Formulas},
url = {http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html},
note = {{http://jacobi.luc.edu/Useful.html}}