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% Daily Laboratory Book
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% This template has been downloaded from:
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% Original author:
% Frank Kuster (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/labbook/)
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% Important note:
% This template requires the labbook.cls file to be in the same directory as the
% .tex file. The labbook.cls file provides the necessary structure to create the
% lab book.
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% The \lipsum[#] commands throughout this template generate dummy text
% to fill the template out. These commands should all be removed when
% writing lab book content.
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% HOW TO USE THIS TEMPLATE
% Each day in the lab consists of three main things:
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% 1. LABDAY: The first thing to put is the \labday{} command with a date in
% curly brackets, this will make a new page and put the date in big letters
% at the top.
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% 2. EXPERIMENT: Next you need to specify what experiment(s) you are
% working on with an \experiment{} command with the experiment shorthand
% in the curly brackets. The experiment shorthand is defined in the
% 'DEFINITION OF EXPERIMENTS' section below, this means you can
% say \experiment{pcr} and the actual text written to the PDF will be what
% you set the 'pcr' experiment to be. If the experiment is a one off, you can
% just write it in the bracket without creating a shorthand. Note: if you don't
% want to have an experiment, just leave this out and it won't be printed.
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% 3. CONTENT: Following the experiment is the content, i.e. what progress
% you made on the experiment that day.
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% PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS
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\documentclass[idxtotoc,hyperref,openany]{labbook} % 'openany' here removes the gap page between days, erase it to restore this gap; 'oneside' can also be added to remove the shift that odd pages have to the right for easier reading
\usepackage[
backref=page,
pdfpagelabels=true,
plainpages=false,
colorlinks=true,
bookmarks=true,
pdfview=FitB]{hyperref} % Required for the hyperlinks within the PDF
\usepackage{booktabs} % Required for the top and bottom rules in the table
\usepackage{float} % Required for specifying the exact location of a figure or table
\usepackage{graphicx} % Required for including images
\usepackage{lipsum} % Used for inserting dummy 'Lorem ipsum' text into the template
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}} % Command to make the lines in the title page
\setlength\parindent{0pt} % Removes all indentation from paragraphs
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% DEFINITION OF EXPERIMENTS
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\newexperiment{example}{This is an example experiment}
\newexperiment{example2}{This is another example experiment}
\newexperiment{example3}{This is yet another example experiment}
\newexperiment{table}{This shows a sample table}
%\newexperiment{shorthand}{Description of the experiment}
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\begin{document}
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% TITLE PAGE
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\frontmatter % Use Roman numerals for page numbers
\title{
\begin{center}
\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{\Huge \bfseries Laboratory Journal \\[0.5cm] \Large Master of Science}\\[0.4cm] % Degree
\HRule \\[1.5cm]
\end{center}
}
\author{\Huge John Smith \\ \\ \LARGE [email protected] \\[2cm]} % Your name and email address
\date{Beginning 6 February 2012} % Beginning date
\maketitle
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter % Use Arabic numerals for page numbers
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% LAB BOOK CONTENTS
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% Blank template to use for new days:
%\labday{Day, Date Month Year}
%\experiment{}
%Text
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%\experiment{}
%Text
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\labday{Friday, 25 November 2011}
\experiment{example}
\lipsum[1]
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\experiment{example2} % Multiple experiments can be included in a single day, this allows you to segment what was done each day into separate categories
\begin{figure}[H] % Example of including images
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\linewidth]{example_figure}
\end{center}
\caption{Example figure.}
\label{fig:example_figure}
\end{figure}
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\experiment{example3}
\lipsum[3-5]
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\labday{Friday, 26 March 2010}
\experiment{table}
\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabular}{l l l}
\toprule
\textbf{Groups} & \textbf{Treatment X} & \textbf{Treatment Y} \\
\toprule
1 & 0.2 & 0.8\\
2 & 0.17 & 0.7\\
3 & 0.24 & 0.75\\
4 & 0.68 & 0.3\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{The effects of treatments X and Y on the four groups studied.}
\label{tab:treatments_xy}
\end{table}
Table \ref{tab:treatments_xy} shows that groups 1-3 reacted similarly to the two treatments but group 4 showed a reversed reaction.
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\labday{Saturday, 27 March 2010}
\experiment{Bulleted list example} % You don't need to make a \newexperiment if you only plan on referencing it once
This is a bulleted list:
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item \ldots and so on
\end{itemize}
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\experiment{example}
\lipsum[6]
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\experiment{example2}
\lipsum[7]
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% FORMULAE AND MEDIA RECIPES
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\labday{} % We don't want a date here so we make the labday blank
\begin{center}
\HRule \\[0.4cm]
{\huge \textbf{Formulae and Media Recipes}}\\[0.4cm] % Heading
\HRule \\[1.5cm]
\end{center}
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% MEDIA RECIPES
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\newpage
\huge \textbf{Media} \\ \\
\normalsize \textbf{Media 1}\\
\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabular}{l l l}
\toprule
\textbf{Compound} & \textbf{1L} & \textbf{0.5L}\\
\toprule
Compound 1 & 10g & 5g\\
Compound 2 & 20g & 10g\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{Ingredients in Media 1.}
\label{tab:med1}
\end{table}
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%\textbf{Media 2}\\ \\
%Description
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% FORMULAE
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\newpage
\huge \textbf{Formulae} \\ \\
\normalsize \textbf{Formula 1 - Pythagorean theorem}\\ \\
$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$\\ \\
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%\textbf{Formula X - Description}\\ \\
%Formula
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