Data Analysis
Fall 2007
Timeline of Modern Physics (PDF)
Primer on Errors (PDF)
Statistics Assignment (PDF)
Spring 2008
Data Analysis Lecture (PDF)
Data Fitting Exercise (PDF)
lineshape1.txt (TXT)
lineshapedata.txt (TXT)
MATLAB®
MATLAB® Fitting Quickstart Guide (PDF)
MATLAB® Fitting Template Script
fittemplate08.m (M)
fitlin.m (M)
levmar.m (M)
gradsearch.m (M)
gauss3.dat (DAT)
bev81.txt (TXT)
MATLAB® Examples for Inspiration
axisproperties.m (M) - Demonstrates various axis and grid options in figures
antenna.m (M) - Models the irradiance pattern of the 21 cm radio telecscope
subplots.m (M) - Demonstrates the use of the 'subplot' command for efficient display of raw data sets
simpoisson.m (M) - Basic generation of Poisson distributed populations
singleslit.m (M) - Modeling single slit diffraction of a HeNe laser
doubleslit.m (M) - Models double slit diffraction
planck.m (M) - Calculates the spectral irradiance from a Black Body using the Planck Radiation Law
maxboltz.m (M) - Calculates the Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution of Thermal Neutron Velocities
expdecay.m (M) - Generates a noisy exponentially decaying dataset for testing non-linear fitting routines
xyerrorbars.m (M) - Demonstrates how to create plots with both x and y error bars
The Wolfram Integrator - Enter any function and it computes the result
Written Summaries
Sample Paper
Physical Review Style and Notation Guide
MIT Online Writing and Communication Center (Note: Services not available to OCW users, only to registered MIT students.)
Author Information for all APS Journals
Journal Title Abbreviations for Bibliographies and Citations
Editorial Policies for AIP and Member Society Journals (
PDF)
Oral Presentations
Junior Lab Presentation Template (PDF)
Beamer Users Guide for Presentation Slides (PDF)
8.13 Evaluation Form (PDF)
8.14 Evaluation Form (PDF)
Computing
Creating a PDF Document using PDFLaTeX
Other LaTeX Related Information
LaTeX Editors
For Windows: WinEdt
For Mac: TexShop, TexMaker
For Linux: Kile (KDE)
Additional Computing Resources
Ghostscript (A PostScript Interpreter)
GSView (A PS Viewer for Windows)
Asymptote (A vector based drawing language)