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Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Now you need to discuss how you did the experiment (in prose, not as a list of steps) and give some more

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Equations can either be written in-line or centered and numbered. You also have the option of incorporating equations as part of the sentence or including them as a separate list, as long as you are consistent. In either case you must define your variables. The following three examples are all suitable. Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2, with energy E, mass m, and speed of light c, has been experimentally verified.

Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2, (1)

with energy E, mass m, and speed of light c, has been experimentally verified. Einstein’s famous equation relating energy E, mass m, and speed of light c, has been experimentally verified.

E = mc2 (2)

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If you have additional data to show, you may have another figure or table in the main body (Table 1). Note that the caption location is above for tables and below for figures.

Table 1: Strain and force measurements were calculated for seven tests of the same sample

Sample number Strain (µStrain) Force (N)

1 42.1 15.2

2 39.4 14.3

3 40.1 14.8

4 42.4 14.7

5 39.7 15.1

6 42.8 15.0

7 42.1 14.7

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1A. Einstein ’On the movement of small particles suspended in stationary liquids required by the molecular-kinetic theory of heat’ Annalen der Physik 17, 549-560, 1905

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