LATTICE · the atom graph

A book chapter is not a stack of pages — it is a graph. Every claim (an atom) declares what a reader must already hold before it makes sense, and QUILL only writes prose once that structure is settled. Below is the real prerequisite graph for one chapter — Physics 11 · Ch 4, Laws of Motion — the same chapter walked end-to-end on /how-we-write.

Ch 4 — Laws of Motion · atom graph

Prerequisite DAG, read top → bottom. Arrows run prereq → atom (downstream); each row is one dependency depth; color is rung. Layout is settled by iterative barycenter sweeps (Sugiyama). Hover an atom for its target misconception (the Misc → O8 column). Hover a worked-example tag below to spotlight the atoms it draws on.

rung prereq R1 recognise R2 apply R3 transfer

worked examples

Tip: hover a WE tag to fade everything except its cluster.