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Appendices
This page offers a number of documents that you will find useful during and after the laboratory session.  These include tables of materials properties, operating procedures for the equipment, and documents that will help you get the most out of your spreadsheet-based assignments and writing the laboratory reports. 

Spreadsheets
The following documents should help you with your spreadsheet-based projects.

bulletCorel Quattro Pro Reference
bulletCorel Quattro Pro Tutorials
bulletMicrosoft Excel Reference
bulletMicrosoft Excel Tutorials
bulletSpreadsheets Hints and Formatting
bulletExcel Reference (draft)
bulletGetting Started Quickly Using Spreadsheets

Equipment
The following documents provide operating instructions for using some of the equipment in our laboratories.

bulletMacromet 1 Operation (Hardness Tester)
bulletMacromet I Operation (Hardness Tester)
bulletInstron Operation, Methods 45 and 46 (Tensile Tester)
bulletInstron Operation, Methods 38 and 39 (Tensile Tester)
bulletMechanical Properties of Selected Materials
bulletOperation of the Nikon Labophot 2A
bulletSamplmet Abrasive Cut-off Saw
bulletSimplimet 3 Specimen Mounting Press
bulletHandimet II Grinders
bulletStandard Polisher/Grinders
bulletThermolyne Ovens
bulletBransonic Ultrasonic Cleaner

Optical Microscopy and Metallography
The following documents offer tips, tricks, and procedures for various metallographic procedures.

bulletThe Optical Microscope
bulletDigital Image Capture, Polaroid DMC Version
bulletEnhancing Digital Images
bulletCreating a Proper Micron Bar
bulletMaking Montages Using Adobe Photoshop
bulletMetallographic Sample Preparation for 70/30 Brass
bulletBasic Sampling Statistics
bulletMeasuring Grain Size
bulletMeasuring Volume Fraction of Phases

Advanced Instrumentation
The following documents provide operating instructions and offer instrument specifications, and procedures of specific types of analyses using advanced instrumentation available in Materials Science Central Facilities.

bulletX-ray Safety Handout
bulletOperation of the Scintag X-ray Diffractometer
bulletBasic information on the FEI XL30-SFEG scanning electron microscope
bulletNotes on the Electron Backscatter Diffraction technique

Miscellaneous
The following documents cover topics that did not fit into any of the above categories.

bulletCharacteristics of Thermocouples
bulletSelected Symbols, Formulas, and Conversion Factors

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Updated on January 03, 2006