The Constantly Asked Physics Questions is my personal FAQ for physics questions. It's in early development. It's available here.
It is simultaneously built as an .html page and a .pdf booklet with pandoc.
You can contribute your own question+answer pairs. If you are completely git-illitterate, you can just PM me answers on reddit. If you are git-positive, just clone, edit the file src/source.md
and give me a pull request.
src/source.md
is a markdown file, so it's really easy to write answers. You can add inline and not-inline math with MathJax syntax. Just read a bit of how the other questions are formatted and especially the title header.
Prerequisites for building:
- pandoc
- working latex environment
and only if you plan on editing src/fdiagrams/diagrams.tex
for Feynman diagrams:
- feynfm (as in: you managed to use it at least once)
- mpost
- inkscape
to build the webpage + pdf, cd
to the project folder and run make
. If you need to rebuild the Feynman diagrams (only, again, if you edited src/fdiagrams/diagrams.tex
), you're going to see a swarm of inkscape windows flash on the screen. Ignore him, he's weird.
If you need to compile only one of the two files index.html
or tex/capq-booklet.pdf
(say, "do I look like I know what a lay-teck is?"), just run
make index.html
or
make tex/capq-booklet.pdf