.. Objectives

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.. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to

.. 1. Defining a list of numbers

.. 2. Squaring a list of numbers

.. 3. Plotting data points.

.. 4. Plotting errorbars.

.. Prerequisites

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..   1. getting started with plotting

.. Author              : Amit 

   Internal Reviewer   : Anoop Jacob Thomas<anoop@fossee.in> 

   External Reviewer   :

   Checklist OK?       : <put date stamp here, if OK> [2010-10-05]

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Plotting   Experimental  Data  

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Hello  and welcome , this tutorial on  Plotting Experimental data is 

presented by the fossee  team.  

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Here  we will discuss plotting  Experimental data. 

1. We will see how we can represent a sequence of numbers in Python. 

2. We will also become familiar with  elementwise squaring of such a

sequence. 

One needs   to  be  familiar  with  the   concepts  of  plotting

mathematical functions in Python.

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As we know for a simple pendulum length,L is directly  proportional to 

the square of time,T. We shall be plotting L and T^2 values.

First  we will have  to initiate L and  T values. We initiate them as sequence 

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with argument t.This is saved into the variable tsquare.::

   array([  0.4761, 0.81 , 1.4161,  1.69 , 2.1609,  2.4964, 3.1329, 

   3.3489, 3.7636])

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Now to plot L vs T^2 we will simply type ::

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'.' here represents to plot use small dots for the point. ::

You can also specify 'o' for big dots.::

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::

Now to plot L vs T^2 with an error bar we use the function errorbar()

The syntax of the command is as given on the screen. ::

This gives a plot with error bar for x and y axis. The dots are of

blue color. The parameters xerr and yerr are error on x and y axis and

fmt is the format of the plot.

similarly we can draw the same error bar with big red dots just change

the parameters to fmt to 'ro'. ::

thats it. you can explore other options to errorbar using the documentation 

of errorbar.::

In this tutorial we have learnt : 

1. How to declare a sequence of number , specifically the kind of sequence we learned was a list.

2. Plotting experimental data extending our knowledge from mathematical functions. 

3. The various options available for plotting dots instead of lines.

4. Plotting experimental data such that we can also represent error. We did this using the errorbar() function.

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This tutorial was created as a part of FOSSEE project.

Hope you have enjoyed and found it useful.