calibcant/overview.txt: Mention that \kappa is the spring constant
authorW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:50 +0000 (13:34 -0400)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 17 May 2013 17:34:50 +0000 (13:34 -0400)
Mom pointed out that it's best to do this explicitly.

src/calibcant/overview.tex

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@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ my \calibcant\ package for performing this calibration automatically.
 
 We know the energy of the cantilever's thermal vibration from the
 equipartion theorem (\cref{eq:equipart,sec:cantilever-calib:intro}).
-Solving the equipartition theorem for $\kappa$ yields
+Solving the equipartition theorem for the spring contant $\kappa$
+yields
 \begin{equation}
   \kappa = \frac{k_BT}{\avg{x^2}} \;, \label{eq:equipart_k}
 \end{equation}