The Lard Factor

Lanham's Parametric Method

1. Circle the prepositions
2. Circle the "is" forms
3. Find the real action
4. Put the action in simple (not compound) active verb
5. Get the sentence moving fast

Steve Turley's PhD Thesis Abstract

An absolute measurement of the ¹⁶O(𝛾,p)¹⁵N differential cross section for an incident photon energy of 200 MeV was made at the M.I.T. Bates Linear Accelerator. Measurements were made at proton angles of 20°, 30°, 50°, 70°, 90°, and 100°. Cross sections for the process leaving the residual ¹⁵N nucleus in its ground state as well as information about the reactions leading to excited states have been extracted. The ground state differential cross section has been integrated to obtain a total cross section at this energy.

Student Astronomy Example

So much in astronomy depends upon accurate distance measurements to objects seen in the sky. The most accurate methods involve measuring the motion of a star in the sky due to the earth’s revolution around the sun and then calculating geometrically the distance to that star. Unfortunately, as we study more distant stars, this motion called parallax becomes tinier and tinier until measuring it to any degree of precision becomes impractical. It is this dilemma that leads us to seek other methods of determining distances. Studying variable stars in stellar clusters helps us to find distances to objects that might be otherwise incalculable and is therefore vital to our improved understanding of the universe.

As will be further explained later, clusters are an important place to find variable stars as they consist of stars at a similar distance and of similar age and composition. However, clusters may consist of thousands of stars and searching for variable stars on an individual basis proves tedious at times.