I’m teaching Statistical and Thermal Physics this semester using Gould and Tobochnik’s text of the same name. The text comes with Java programs to run simulations to help students (and me!) gain understanding about how systems with large numbers of … Continue reading
(Updated 11-Jan-2022; fixed broken links and updated notebook) This started out as a way to make sure I understood the numpy array slicing methods, and builds on my previous post about using scipy to fit data. I define a 3 parameter … Continue reading
Here’s a common thing scientists need to do, and it’s easy to accomplish in python. Suppose that you have a data set consisting of temperature vs time data for the cooling of a cup of coffee. We’ll start by importing … Continue reading
I’m back to posting now that I am on sabbatical; things have evolved on WordPress in the last year, and now it’s easy to post source code. See the following link so that you can see read about how easy … Continue reading
Here’s a simple script which is a good starting point for animating a plot using matplotlib’s animation package (which, by their own admission, is really in a beta status as of matplotlib 1.1.0). I find the code needed to perform … Continue reading