AP as in "advanced placement"...? Is this something you did in high school?? If so, I'm absolutely blown away by this. This paper deals with content typically not taught until the 2nd/3rd year of engineering programs. Hell, I'm impressed by the fact that you even know how to use LaTeX in high school. Moreover, I took a look at the TeX file, you're not just using LaTeX, you're using it at an intermediate/high level too. Even by undergraduate standards, this is impressive. I wish I would've had your maturity and drive when I was your age. Incredible work! If my assumption that this was work you did in high school is correct, I have a question: Where did you find the time to learn everything you needed to do this? e.g. the physics, the math, the typesetting, etc.
Yup, this was my AP Research Paper (senior in high school)! Thank you for the kind words! For the learning aspect, I just allocated a ton of time to reading research papers and watching videos. Most of them I didn't read fully, would just make tons of searches with slightly related terms and skim a ton of abstracts until something clicked. I also got extremely lucky and had an expert at a local university who helped me work through some things and coordinate sample testing. As for the typesetting, most of that was taken care of by an ASME journal template, all I had to do is figure out some table formatting and citation stuff, and then the rest of it was just tweaked with trial and error.
AP as in "advanced placement"...? Is this something you did in high school??
If so, I'm absolutely blown away by this. This paper deals with content typically not taught until the 2nd/3rd year of engineering programs. Hell, I'm impressed by the fact that you even know how to use LaTeX in high school. Moreover, I took a look at the TeX file, you're not just using LaTeX, you're using it at an intermediate/high level too. Even by undergraduate standards, this is impressive.
I wish I would've had your maturity and drive when I was your age. Incredible work!
If my assumption that this was work you did in high school is correct, I have a question: Where did you find the time to learn everything you needed to do this? e.g. the physics, the math, the typesetting, etc.
Yup, this was my AP Research Paper (senior in high school)! Thank you for the kind words! For the learning aspect, I just allocated a ton of time to reading research papers and watching videos. Most of them I didn't read fully, would just make tons of searches with slightly related terms and skim a ton of abstracts until something clicked. I also got extremely lucky and had an expert at a local university who helped me work through some things and coordinate sample testing.
As for the typesetting, most of that was taken care of by an ASME journal template, all I had to do is figure out some table formatting and citation stuff, and then the rest of it was just tweaked with trial and error.