Assignments¶

“Introduction to Mathematica“¶

There’s a lot of reading this week, but don’t feel like you have to master any of it yet. We want to get you started quickly on topics, but we have to introduce a lot before you can do anything interesting. You’ll likely be reviewing this material through January 22 to complete the homework for that week. Go ahead and look at the homework for next week so you can get a feel for how much you’ll need to comprehend this week from the material. We’ll return to sections later as we need them, and will often list them as part of the required reading.

Reading due by class:

• Introduction
• Syllabus
• Mathematica Introduction
• Sections from Mathematica Document Structure and Syntax:
  • Basic Constructs
  • Order Matters
  • Other Constructs
• Lists
• Functions
  • You can ignore the “dummy variable” sidebar (that’s why it’s a sidebar)

Assignment due before class this week: Only the reading! Might browse through the whole book if you want to see what’s ahead, and to see some pretty examples.

Presentation: Week1.pdf

“Introduction to Mathematica: Simple programs, graphing”¶

Reading due by class:

• Mathematica Document Structure and Syntax
• Lists, Tables, and Matrices
• Sections from Functions and Graphing
  • Functions
  • Introduction to Graphing
  • Basic 2D Graphs

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 1.

Presentation: Week2.pdf

“Introduction to Mathematica: Simple programs”¶

Reading due by class:

• Applying Assumptions
• Importing Data
• Exporting Data
• Functions and Graphing
• Animations

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 2.

Presentation: Week3.pdf

“Mathematica: Reading in data, simple analysis”¶

This weeks marks the brief shift into applying the structures we’ve learned about with Mathematica to real problems rather than little toys. Most assignments (including the one due this week) that have a Mathematica component will now have some data associated with them that you will then use to perform analysis. This week, the assignment is more about graphing the raw data, but we’ll soon move to applying fits to the data, plotting those, plotting error bars, etc. We’ll take a break from Mathematica in a couple weeks to learn about LaTeX so we can present our results in a more formal way.

Reading due by class:

• Curve Fitting
• Approximations

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 3.

Data file for assignment (9 MB): Assignment 3 Data.

Presentation: Week4.pdf

Examples from class: Week4Examples.nb

“Mathematica: More advanced data analysis”¶

Reading due by class:

• Error Analysis
• Error Bars

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 4.

Data file for assignment (600 KB): Halley's Comet Data.

“Mathematica: More advanced data analysis”¶

This is the last week of Mathematica for a while (not last week - sorry)! We’ll begin looking at LaTeX next!

Reading due by class:

• Installation
• Introduction to LaTeX
• Document Structure
• Commands and Special Characters

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 5.

Data file for assignment (600 KB): Halley's Comet Data.

Intro to LaTeX¶

Reading due by clas:

• Packages
• Mathematics in LaTeX
• Tables, Arrays, and Matrices

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 6 PDF (Source)

Try typesetting the source before beginning the assignment - if it doesn’t let me know because you won’t be able to complete the assignment otherwise.

Mathematics in LaTeX¶

The start of doing mathematics in LaTeX. Here’s the MIT lecture with nearly everything you need to know for the assignment.

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 7 PDF

New Commands and Figures¶

Lecture on new commands and figures: Lecture 8 PDF

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 8 PDF

Tables, Arrays, and Matrices¶

Lecture on new commands and figures: Lecture 10 PDF

Assignment due before class this week: None

Units and Chemistry¶

Installation Problems?

(Evan here) I had trouble getting siunitx and mhchem to work. If you’re using MiKTeX (Windows), then you can use the package manager (in Windows 7 start menu, that’s “MiKTeX <version>/Maintenance (Admin)/Package Manager (Admin)”). You’ll need to install l3kernel and l3packages then siunitx and mhchem (just search for them by name - you might need to use the menu “Repository > Synchronize” to update the listings - then click them and click the “+”). After that, things compiled normally. I had a lot of difficulty trying to download packages directly from CTAN.

Lecture on new commands and figures: Lecture 11 PDF

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 9 PDF

BibTeX¶

Interactive lesson on BibTeX.

Assignment due before class this week: Assignment 10 PDF

Sample working BibTeX example: TeX file bibliography

Z-Scores, P-Values, Confidence Intervals, Model Fits¶

Reading:

• Combining Distributions
• Z-scores
• Fitting Functions

PDF from last week: Week 12

PDF for this week: Week 13