On 12/10/17 21:22, Cameron McKay wrote: > I've never used python trying to plot a graph. Thus I am having > difficulties trying to plot the maxwell-boltzmann distribution.
Bear in mind that this list is for people learning the Python language and its standard library(as defined on python.org). As such most of us will have no specialist domain knowledge of your area. > i've defined the y-axis given the probability, but the difficult part is > trying to plot x in the form of: > > x = v/(2kT/m)^(1/2) It's not clear how x and y are related - which is what you are seemingly trying to plot? You define x in terms of v, k, T, and m but you offer no clue what these are, where they come from etc. Are they variables? constants? Are you trying a 3D plot of x/y against one of these values? Also I don't think ^(1/2) - a bitwise xor - is the python expression you really want? I'm guessing you maybe mean pow(0.5) or math.sqrt()? > before i used the linspace function linespace is not a builtin, is it part of the plotting library you are using? I'm guessing it's the SciPy package but I'm not sure? > Thanks for looking into this, You need to give us a lot more context. If it is a SciPy problem there is a SciPy mailing list where you may get more specialist readers who already are familiar with your problem domain. But for this list you need to assume we have almost zero knowledge of the domain, only of the language. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
