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Update: I’ve made new versions of these warning stickers using white lettering on a red background to conform more completely with local fire and electrical codes. Follow this link to see the updated warning stickers. Click the image at left or any of the images below to be redirected to my CafePress store to purchase

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In order to display text in a processing applet or sketch, one needs to first create a font to use with your sketch. Select Tools > Create Font… from the menu. The dialogue box shown below will appear (Mac OS X version of IDE) select the font and font size and specify the name of

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As a physics professor, I’ve discovered that there is one thing more than any other that prevents students from finding success in my algebra-based college physics course, proficiency in algebra. Students who start the course without sufficient mastery of algebra are like students starting a English literature course without being able to read English. If

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The extension EPS stands for Encapsulated PostScript and is my favorite filetype for graphics and figures I produce using applications like Illustrator, Inkscape, and MATLAB. Here is how to insert EPS figures into a LaTex document. First you have to use the graphicx package so insert the following after the \documentclass tag and before the

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As a physics professor, I’ve discovered that there is one thing more than any other that prevents students from finding success in my conceptual physics course, proficiency in algebra. My conceptual physics course include a significant amount of problem solving and students who start the course without sufficient mastery of algebra are like students starting