Physics307L F09:Schedule/Week 13 agenda/Formal/Figures
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In a published scientific report, readers will often skip ahead to the figures without reading the text first.
Your figures should have descriptive captions that allow the reader to understand the figure easily.
Describe all the different color codes and symbols in your graph...which are measured data, which are fits, etc. What do the axes mean?