While you folks are doing experiments in your kitchen, I am
translating a paper from Japanese in my office. From each according
to his abilities -- as someone said. I need some assistance with
mathematics terminology relating to curve-fitting algorithms. A
program called OriginPro from OriginLab was used for this purpose. I
could scour their web page or download their manual, but anyone
familiar with sort of thing should please contact me by private e-mail.
Also I would like to say something to Scientists and Engineers
everywhere. Let me get this off my chest:
For goodness sake people! -- units should not be more precise than
the measurement; i.e., if you measure in centimeters don't report in
millimeters. If you measure in hours don't report kilosecond (ks).
I'll bet you did not leave that sample evacuated for 86.4 ks; you
left it for about a day, or 24 hours if you must. You were not
watching the clock to remove it to within one second the next day.
And for crying out loud, learn to put a SPACE after the number &
before the unit, except with degrees Celsius. It is 20 g, 30 cm, 15
MJ, not 20g, 30cm, 15MJ. See:
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/
- Jed
