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LoanFunctions.m Package
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LoanFunctions.m
is a package containing functions that help in calculations
of certain loan costs: for estimating home purchase costs and
performing other loan calculations. This is a prototypical example
of a self contained small application of the sort that Scientific
Arts can easily deliver. It contains numerical and analytical
functions, on-line documentation, floating palettes, and GUI
calculators. |
| Radar
System Analysis Packages |
At Scientific Arts we have written
a large collection of Mathematica functions that perform
the calculations essential in the analysis of the performance
of radar systems. |
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String and
Text Manipulation:
Anagrams
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A simple application of Mathematica string manipulation
commands.
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| ArrowExtended.m
Package |
The ArrowExtended.m
package extends some of the functionality of Mathematica's
Graphics`Arrow`
standard add-on package so that the HeadShape
option can include Splines,
Polygons with
Splines, Plot,
and ParametricPlot.
In each case these may be multiplied by an arbitrary numerical
scaling factor. |
| Eye Diagram
for Digital Communications |
In digital communications the "eye
diagram" is used to visualize how the waveforms used to
send multiple bits of data can potentially lead to errors in
the interpretation of those bits. Certain pulse shapes are used
specifically to alleviate this. One simple example of this is
the "raised cosine" pulse shape. This is an example
of an implementation of the eye diagram in Mathematica
for the raised cosine pulse shape for Pulse Amplitude Modulation
waveforms. |
| Web Safe
Colors Palettes |
Mathematica palettes and
associated notebook for generating web safe colors. |
| Stellar
Structure and the Lane-Emden Function |
A discussion of the Lane-Emden function
discussed in Chapter IV of "An Introduction to the Study
of Stellar Structure" (Dover, New York, 1958) by S. Chandrasekhar.
This function specifies the behavior of the equilibrium configuration
of polytropic and isothermal gas spheres: stars. |
| Maxwellian
Probability Distribution Function |
The Maxwellian probability distribution
function governs the distribution of molecular speeds in an
ideal gas. Several methods for generating random numbers based
on this distribution are described and coded. |
| Example
of Differential Equations for Chemical Kinetics |
Chemical reactions of a wide variety
can be modeled with coupled (often nonlinear) differential equations.
These describe the time evolution of the concentrations of the
various chemical species: reactants, intermediaries, catalysts,
and products. Such problems are quite simple to set up and solve
with Mathematica. |
| Single
Electron Atom Wave Functions |
Computation (analytic and numerical)
and visualization of single electron atom wave functions. |
| Exploring
a Data Set: Plotting with Error Bars |
Custom graphical visualization of
a data set that describes the total interaction cross section
for an elementary particle reaction. |
| Mathematica
in Quantum Field Theory Calculations: An Example |
A simple example of the use of Mathematica
in the calculation of the one loop "fish" diagram
in a quantum field theory. |
| Building
a Simple Ball and Stick Molecule Graphic from Graphics Primitives
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Often the visualization of data
can be performed most conveniently by making use of Mathematica's
graphics programming language directly. Here we do a rather
simple exercise: produce a "ball and stick" graphic
of a molecule. The molecule is specified in terms of the atoms
that it is composed of, their coordinates in a Cartesian coordinate
system, and the bonds between them. |
| From
Simple Tabular Formatting to Automatic Report Generation |
A simple example of the use of some
Mathematica's tabular formatting and notebook manipulation
commands to show how one can create functions that automatically
generate reports. |
| A
Simple Analysis of Historical Sunspot Data |
Linear filtering in the time domain
and low pass filtering in the frequency domain are used to smooth
the time series that for the number of sunspots. This basic
analysis gives along with a basic peak finding method determines
the approximately 11 year sunspot cycle. |
| Linear
and Nonlinear Least Squares Fitting to Data |
An introductory exposition of the
use of Mathematica's linear and nonlinear least squares fitting
procedures to provide functional fits to data sets. |
| Compilation
and Packed Arrays |
An example of the use of Compile
in a procedural program for the Mandelbrot set. Also included
is a brief introduction to packed arrays. |
| Arrow Axes |
A notebook showing the design of a function to add arrow heads to the axes of a graph. |
