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26 guides on writing, formulas, images, practice, community and your account.
26 guides on writing, formulas, images, practice, community and your account.
Getting started
What Hub 4 Mech is, your account and finding content.
- Welcome to Hub 4 MechWhat you can do on Hub 4 Mech and where to begin: notes, practice problems and interactive apps for engineering mechanics.
- Creating an account and your member idSign up, choose your member id and understand what other members can see about you.
- Searching and exploringFind notes, problems and apps quickly: the search panel, results, filters, tags, sources and the Explore menu.
- Your My HubYour personal area: your notes, problems and apps, favourites, votes, history, comments, messages and settings.
Writing content
The editor, formulas, images, boxes, embeds, tags and publishing.
- Writing with the editorA tour of the content editor used for notes, problems and app guides: creating, structuring, saving and the most important tools.
- The editor toolbarEvery button of the editor toolbar from left to right, with icons, what it does and keyboard shortcuts.
- Formatting text, lists and tablesHeadings, emphasis, lists, alignment and tables: how to structure a readable note.
- LaTeX formula guideReady-made formulas to copy: algebra, calculus, relations, Greek letters, vectors, matrices and common mechanics equations.
- Writing formulasInsert inline and display equations with the mathematics editor: symbol palette, LaTeX basics, spacing, units and common mechanics examples.
- LaTeX referenceThe complete formula guide: every supported symbol, operator and environment with examples.
- Adding imagesUpload figures and photos, place them under the text or beside it, set the width, add a caption and edit them later.
- Callout boxes: example, note, hint, warningColoured boxes that make examples, remarks, hints and warnings stand out - and are numbered automatically.
- Embedding notes, problems and appsPlace another note, a practice problem or an interactive app inside your text so readers can open, solve or run it on the spot.
- Tags and sourcesAdd topics with tags and cite the books, articles and lecture notes you used - and how readers browse them.
- Publishing and reviewDraft, pending, active and passive: what each status means and how your content becomes public.
Problems and apps
Solving practice problems and using interactive apps.
Community
Comments, votes, points, messages, notifications and feedback.
- Comments and discussionsAsk questions and discuss content: writing, replying, voting, editing and deleting comments.
- Voting and favouritesUp and down votes, saving items to your favourites and what they mean for authors.
- Reputation pointsHow you earn reputation: writing, publishing, solving problems, voting and daily visits - plus milestones.
- MessagesSend private messages to other members by member id, manage conversations and delete messages.
- NotificationsWhat you are notified about, where to find notifications and how to choose which e-mails you receive.
- Member profilesWhat a public profile shows, how to find members and how topics and similar members are chosen.
- Sending feedbackReport a mistake, suggest an improvement or ask a question about any page with the feedback button.
Your account
Profile, settings, privacy and safety.