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As far as I know, most of the time when you use the 'abstract' command \begin{abstract}
\end{abstract} the particular document class will span the abstract over the entire page. To place your document in two column form, use the format \documentclass[twocolumn]{your document class} . If you are new ...

Thank you. Removing the "figure" command did the trick. I have made my code more minimalistic.

I am having trouble with the "minipage" command and the spacing issue it is creating. My figures and text seem to be vertically centering themselves on the page. My desire it to have the minipages have uniform spacing justified to the top of the page. I have included the code along with a PDF file ...

Is your intent to have no margins, or are you only trying to increase the usable space available on a document?

Worked perfectly! Thank you so much for the help!

Another simple way to set the margins to 1 inch on all sides of the document:

When using the 'fleqn' format, I am still receiving white-space to the left of my equation.

\subsection*{Shear Stress Resultant}
\[ T = \int_A{p \* \tau \* dA} = \int_A{p \* \left(G \* p \* \dfrac{d\phi}{dx}\right) \* dA} \qquad \text{Resultant Torque} \]
\[ \text{If $G$ is constant,} \]
\[ T = G ...