This is the Name of my Thesis

by
I. B. Scriptor
B.A., North Dakota State University, 2005
M.S., University of Reno, 2007

A thesis submitted to the

Faculty of the Graduate School of the
University of Colorado in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Rocket Science
2015

This thesis entitled:

This is the Name of my Thesis
written by I. B. Scriptor
has been approved for the Department of Rocket Science

Prof. Ed Visor

Prof. Rachel Goddard

Ms. Thora Nea

Date

The final copy of this thesis has been examined by the signatories, and we find that both the
content and the form meet acceptable presentation standards of scholarly work in the above
mentioned discipline.

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Scriptor, I. B. (Ph.D., Rocket Science)
This is the Name of my Thesis
Thesis directed by Prof. Ed Visor

Often the abstract will be long enough to require more than one page, in which case the
macro \OnePageChapter should not be used.
But this one isnt, so it should.

Dedication

To all of the fluffy kitties.

Acknowledgements

Heres where you acknowledge folks who helped. But keep it short, i.e., no more than one
page, as required by the Grad School Specifications.

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Contents

Chapter
1 Introduction
1.1

Lists in thesis class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2 Mathematical Formulation

1
5

2.1

Explanation of equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.2

Yet another section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.2.1

Just meaningless text to test lines per page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.2.2

This is a subsection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.2.3

This is another subsection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.3

The End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Bibliography

12

Appendix
A Weird Exam Answers

13

B Ode to Spot

15

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Tables

Table
1.1

Example of a table with its own footnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1

Table from a PDF file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Figures

Figure
1.1

Cylinder and measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1.2

Bitmap images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2.1

Cutting up a triangular pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 1

Introduction

This sample document illustrates how to use the thesis class, originally written by John P.
Weiss. Some requirements of the Graduate School are written into that file; page size, line spacing,
appropriate placement of captions for tables and figures, etc. Revisions by Hongcheng Ni make it
possible to use the (optional) \usepackage{hyperref} command to enable internal hyperlinks in
the final PDF document. Other tasks of conforming to the requirements are left to other existing
LATEX packages. For example, a common problem is to insert graphics figures and tables
into the body of the thesis. For this one should use the graphicx package, which is part of the
standard TEX distribution. Likewise, the Grad School specs say that a large table may be displayed
in landscape mode at reduced size, but its caption must also be in rotated position, in the same
font and size as the normal text in the body of the thesis. To accomplish this, the user must invoke
the rotating package, available online.
Figure 1.1 shows an image from a PDF file imported into this document using the graphicx
package. The command \usepackage{graphicx}, which appears near the very top of the main
LATEX file, reads in this package which defines the \includegraphics{} macro.

1.1

Lists in thesis class

In thesis class (for Colorado University), lists are defined so that nested lists will be num-

bered or marked appropriately. First, an itemized (non-enumerated) list prefaces each item with
a bullet. Nested itemized list use asterisks, then dashes, then dots. These lists are typed between

Figure 1.1: This diagram of a cylinder and various measurements and quantities was actually made
using xfig, a freeware drawing program for Unix systems. Diagrams can be exported directly to
PDF files, the preferred format for vector graphics. Vector graphics can be magnified indefinitely
without degradation, whereas bitmap images (JPG and PNG) must be pretty high-resolution if
you dont want them looking all pixellated when magnified.
r
Vr(r=R)= -Vr0(z
, , t )

P=P
0
z

0
Vz(z= 0) = V (r, ,t)
z0

Figure 1.2: The JPEG bitmap format is great for photos but crummy for diagrams (including
drawings, graphs, charts) because it cant gracefully handle sharp edges. Note the same bitmap
image below from a PNG file and from a JPG file; the latter shows characteristic ringing at
sharp edges including text! Seriously, magnify and look closely at the JPGs awful lines and
edges. Vector-format PDF is the best for diagrams, but if you must use a bitmap image, let it be
PNG. (Left: file drawing.png. Right: file drawing.jpg.)

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the \begin{itemize} and \end{itemize} commands.
This is itemized item A.
This is itemized item B.
This is itemized item C.
This is itemized subitem A.
This is itemized subsubitem A.
This is itemized subsubsubitem A.
This is itemized subsubitem B.
This is itemized subitem B.
This is itemized item D.
Enumerated lists use the commands \begin{enumerate} and \end{enumerate}, and nested
enumerations appear like this.
(1) This is enumerated item A.
(2) This is enumerated item B.
(3) This is enumerated item C.
(a) This is enumerated subitem A.
(i) This is enumerated subsubitem A.
(i.a) This is enumerated subsubsubitem A.
(ii) This is enumerated subsubitem B.
(b) This is enumerated subitem B.
(4) This is enumerated item D.

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The work presented here1 is an extension of Lao[7] and Lao et al.[8], fictional references that
are in the bibliographic source file refs.bib.
Table 1.1: Here is an example of a table with its own footnotes. Dont use the \footnote macro
if you dont want the footnotes at the bottom of the page. Also, note that in a thesis the caption
goes above a table, unlike figures.

wave form
Fig. 1.1a
Fig. 1.1b
Table 2.1
Table 1.1
Fig. 2.1

S
(kVA)
25.48
25.11
24.98
23.48
24.64

kVAr
kVAd

Footnotes are handled neatly by LATEX.

P
(kW)
25.00
18.02
22.26
15.00
22.81

Q
(kVAr)
-2.82
-9.75
9.19
6.59
-0.44

means reactive power.

means distortion power.

D
(kVAd)
4.03
14.52
6.64
16.82
9.3

Chapter 2

Mathematical Formulation

The objective of this fake thesis document is to demonstrate a multitude of LATEX features
as well as features specific to the thesis class. We start by giving one short formula, and one big
hairy multi-line formula (one of the non-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations):

A = r2

2.1

V2
DVr
M 2
Dt
r

(2.1)


 

2 P
M 2

Vr
1
+
2

V
M r
Re
r
r
3
 

1
1 Vr
V
V
+

+

r
r
r
r
 


1 Vr
Vz
+
2
+
z
z
r


Vr
 V
Vr
+2

,
r r
r
r

(2.2)

Explanation of equations
The latter equation is non-dimensionalized using the following definitions:
r=

r0
,
R0

z=

z0
,
L0

t=

t0
,
t0a

0
,
00

0
,
00

CV =

CV0
,
CV0 0

where P00 is the initial static pressure in the cylinder, and 00 and T00 are the density and temperature
of the fluid being injected from the sidewall.
Here is an example of using the macros \singlespacing and \doublespacing:

Figure 2.1: A triangular pyramid may be cut up as shown, to yield one top pyramid (with oneeighth the volume of the full pyramid), three bottom corner pyramids (which, when joined, are
congruent to the top pyramid), three prisms along the bottom edges (the area of whose bottom
faces total B/2) and the large central prism (volume = (B/4)(h/2) = Bh/8). The image, from PDF
file pyr.pdf, was read in using the \includegraphics command, from the graphicx package.

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This paragraph was preceded by the command \singlespacing. See the Specifications of
the Grad School for instructions about when single spacing is appropriate in a thesis.
And now, here is an example of using the macros \begin{singlespace} and \end{singlespace};
another way to get single-spacing.
Two cases are studied in the present work which differ only in the boundary conditions. Each
different boundary condition model a different source of instability. The boundary of the first case
consists of a steady, axisymmetric sidewall radial velocity boundary and a time-dependent, nonaxisymmetric endwall axial velocity boundary. The second case is studied with a fixed impermeable
axial velocity along the endwall and a combination axisymmetric steady and non-axisymmetric
unsteady radial velocity along the sidewall.
Usually you want to use a table produced by some other software, such as Excel, rather than
try to do it using LATEXmacros. If the table is saved/printed to a PDF file, then it can be displayed
using the \includegraphics macro inside a table environment:
Some of the boundary conditions are:

z = 0;

Vz =

0,

t0

Fe (r, , t),
zw

t>0

(2.3)

z = 0;

V = Vr = 0

(2.4)

r = 0;

P, , T, Vr , V , Vz finite,

(2.5)

r = 1;

Vr = Frws (z),

(2.6)

r = 1;

Vz = V = 0,

(2.7)

and solutions must be periodic in .

If you dont believe this stuff, check out Mulick[10] and Baylor[1].

2.2

Yet another section

2.2.1

Just meaningless text to test lines per page

According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines of print per page of a thesis.
This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them up; does this document

Table 2.1:
This table wasnt constructed with LATEX commands, but resides in PDF file
(tableD.pdf) created by some other software.

n2

n3

n4

2
3

n7

n13

16

128

8192

27

81

2187

1594323

16

64

256

16384

67108864

25

125

625

78125

1220703125

36

216

1296

279936

13060694016

49

343

2401

823543

96889010407

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conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines of print per page of
a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them up; does this
document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines of print per
page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them up; does
this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines of print
per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them up;
does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines of
print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines

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of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform? According to the Grad School specs. there should be 2427 lines
of print per page of a thesis. This should be true whether the font size is 10, 11, or 12. Count them
up; does this document conform?
What is it?

This is a labelled paragraph. The heading of the paragraph is emphasized.

This is a labelled paragraph. The heading of the paragraph is emphasized.

2.2.2

This is a subsection

This is a subsection. Filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler. Filler filler filler filler filler
filler filler filler.

2.2.3

This is another subsection

This is another subsection. Filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler. Filler filler filler filler
filler filler filler filler.
This is paragraph number 2.

It used a \paragraph{} header, which are always inlined

(with extra space) and boldfaced.

This is the third paragraph of the subsection. Filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler.
Filler filler filler filler filler filler filler filler.

2.2.3.1

This is a subsubsection (1)

This is the first paragraph of the subsubsection. Whether it is numbered or inlined depends
on the option selected at the beginning of the thesis.
By default, a \subsubsection heading is numbered and set off on a separate line, leftjustified.
However.

Using the inlineh4 option, subsubsection headers are inlined. And using the

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nonumh4 option suppresses numbering of the subsubsections. Together they make subsubsection
headings just the same as paragraph headings.

2.2.3.2

This is another subsubsection (2)

Once again, whether its heading is numbered and/or inlined depends on the class options
chosen at the start.
There is no subsubsubsection entity, and subparagraph gets no special treatment in
thesis class.

2.3

The End
Finally, this is the end. The bibliography starts on the next page. Note how the \hyperref

package (mentioned in chapter 1) also makes hyperlinks from references (e.g., Mulick[10]) to entries
in the bibliography.

Bibliography

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[2] M. E. Crow. Aerodynamic sound emission as a singular perturbation problem. Stud. Appl.
Math., 29:2144, 1968.
[3] Julian D. Dole. Perturbation Methods in Applied Mathematics. Winsdell Publishing Company,
1967.
[4] J. S. Fabnis, H. J. Giblet, and H. McDormand. Navier-stokes analysis of solid rocket motor
internal flow. J. Prop. and Power, 2:157164, 1980.
[5] F. Guillot and Z. Javalon. Acoustic boundary layers in propellant rocket motors. J. Prop. and
Power, 5:331339, 1989.
[6] IBM. SPSS Statistics. download from vendor site, 2012. version 21.
[7] Henry Lao. Linear Acoustic Processes in Rocket Engines. PhD thesis, University of Colorado
at Boulder, 1979.
[8] Q. Lao, M. N. Cassoy, and K. Kirkpatrick. Acoustically generated vorticity from internal flow.
J. Fluid Mechanics, 2:122133, 1996.
[9] Q. Lao, D. R. Kassoy, and K. Kirkkopru. Nonlinear acoustic processes in rocket engines. J.
Fluid Mechanics, 3:245261, 1997.
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propellant. AIAA J., 3:10621063, 1964.
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Tech., 19:99124, 1981.
[12] R. S. Richards and A. M. Brown. Coupling between acoustic velocity oscillations and solid
propellant combustion. J. Prop. and Power, 5:828837, 1982.
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In 16st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, number 0112 in 78. AIAA, 1978.
[14] Joseph D. Taum. Investigation of flow turning phenomenon. In 20th Aerospace Sciences
Meeting, number 0297 in 82. AIAA, 1982.
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1981.

Appendix A

Weird Exam Answers

About appendices:

Each appendix follow the same page-numbering rules as a regular

chapter; the first page of a (multi-page) appendix is not numbered. By the way, the following are
supposedly authentic answers to English GCSE exams!
(1) The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldnt have history.
The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
(2) Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
(3) Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed
him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a
dramatic decline.
(4) Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered
him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: Tee hee,
Brutus.
(5) Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
(6) In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was
Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
(7) Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his
sons head.

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(8) Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote.
The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died
and he wrote Paradise Regained.
(9) During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who
discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the
Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
(10) Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the
apples are falling off the trees.
(11) Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children.
In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from
1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel.
Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
(12) Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under
the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
(13) The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is In the East and the
sun sets in the West.
(14) Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the
Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the
Marx brothers.

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Appendix B

Ode to Spot

(Data, Stardate 1403827)

(A one-page chapter page must be numbered!) Throughout

the ages, from Keats to Giorchamo, poets have composed odes to individuals who have had a
profound effect upon their lives. In keeping with that tradition I have written my next poem . . . in
honor of my cat. I call it. . . Ode. . . to Spot. (Shot of Geordi and Worf in audience, looking mystified
at each other.)
Felus cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature
an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature?
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued by your sub-vocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
you would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.
(Commander Riker begins to applaud, until a glance from Counselor Troi brings him to a halt.)
Commander Riker, you have anticipated my denouement. However, the sentiment is appreciated.
I will continue.
O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.