Posts

Contact

Image
 You may contact me using the contact form, which you may access by clicking the hamburger icon at the blog's upper left hand corner. You may also email me directly. --Quirino Sugon Jr, PhD

Biography

 Dr. Quirino Sugon Jr graduated with degrees of BS in Physics (1997), MS  in Physics (1999), and PhD in Physics (2010) from  Ateneo de Manila University . He taught physics for more than 20  years, starting at the University of St. La Salle from 1999 to 2002. He taught at Ateneo de Manila University from 2004 to 2007 as Instructor and from 2010 to 2023 as Assistant Professor. He also taught at the Department of Aerospace Engineering of Ateneo de Davao University as a guest faculty in 2020.  At  Manila Observatory , Dr. Sugon served as the Head of the Upper Atmosphere Dynamics Laboratory from 2010 to 2018, where he worked on space weather research using MAGDAS magnetometers, FMCW radars, and GPS satellites. In 2017, he came back to Ateneo de Manila University after a 9-month research work as Associate Professor at the International Center for Space Weather Science and Education (ICSWSE) at  Kyushu University  in order to study equatorial electrojets and seismo-electromagnetics. He serve

Montessori knobbed cylinders: the mathematics of radius, height, and volume

Volume of a Cylinder  The volume \(V\) of a cylinder with radius \(r\), height \(h\) is given by \[V = \pi r^2 h.\] Notice that we have three parameters. If we hold one of them to be constant, then we can obtain the relationship between the other two parameters, especially if one of these two parameters is uniformly or linearly increasing, i.e., a linear function of a set of integers \(k =\{0, 1, 2, \ldots, n\}\), where \(n\) is an arbitrary integer ideally greater than or equal to 3.  Let us consider three cases: constant volume, constant radius, and constant height. Each of these cases will have two sub-cases, with each sub-case dictating the design of a row of Montessori knobbed cylinders. Thus, in principle, you can design a total of 6 rows of knobbed cylinders, with each row containing \(n\) cylinders. 1. Constant volume \(V\) If the volume \(V=V_0\) is constant, then the radius \(r\) of the cylinder is inversely proportional to the square root of the height \(h\): \[r =\sqrt{\fra

How to download Optica's LaTeX template in Overleaf

Image
Fig. 1. Overleaf's user interface for the Optica journal template. The menu button is at the upper left corner.  Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1 (Feb 2023)  Topic: Research Contents: Optica's directions for downloading LaTeX files Overleaf's menu button for downloading source files My rendered LaTeX code using pdflatex in TeXworks I was using the free Overleaf account and one of its deal-breaking restrictions is the one-minute compile time. I can increase the compile time to 4 min if I get the Personal (USD 129), Standard (USD 199), and or Professional (  USD 399) Overleaf plan .  If your project has too many figures and style files, Overleaf would need more time to compile it, which can exceed the 1 minute mark.  One way to go around these restrictions is to compile your LaTeX code in your computer using the journal style files from Overleaf. Optica, for example, states that this manual compilation is possible: Choose the journal-specific "Access on Overleaf" link

How to write a thesis proposal

Image
  Newsletter: Volume 1, Issue 1/ Topic: Research Contents Title Abstract Introduction Methodology Expected Results References  Budget Gantt chart  1. Title Write your thesis title in about 13 words. Just remember Friday the 13th if you have triskaidekaphobia . Or perhaps October 13 if you are a devotee of Our Lady of Fatima . As a rule of thumb, do not go beyond two lines for your thesis title in a given thesis template.  Remember that your thesis title is the first thing that the reader sees if they pick up your thesis on the shelf or search for it in your library catalog and online search engines like Google. A good title should accurately reflect the contents of your thesis. This is truth in advertising , since your thesis title is already an ad for your buyers—your potential readers, which includes your thesis adviser and panel members. Will they buy  your idea and read the rest of your proposal or your full thesis? Many marketing campaigns can succeed or fail with just a single se