Problem statement, all variables and given/known data

[SteveL27]

"problem statement, all variables and given/known data"

Couldn't find anywhere else to post this. I was just curious. In a lot of the posts on this board, people organize their question as

1. Homework Statement

2. Homework Equations

3. The Attempt at a Solution

I was wondering if this is a convention on this board, or if this is something they teach all the physics students these days.

 

[Evo]

It's our homework template.

 

[SteveL27]

It's our homework template.

I was not able to find it. I read the forum guidelines and I must say that's a very entertaining collection of crackpot links :-) But I could not find any reference to the homework template. Just curious if someone could point me to it.

 

[diazona]

It's right there in your first post on this thread

When you click the button to make a new post in one of the homework forums, the text box is pre-filled with the homework template. That's the original source.

 

[Redbelly98]

FYI, "the homework forums" means any forum in the Homework & Coursework Questions area of Physics Forums:

https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=152

For any thread started there (and only there), the homework template is automatically generated in the first post of the thread.