The Python-Based Laboratory

Auteur
John Essick is an emeritus professor at Reed College with research interests in the optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. Since 1993, he has taught computer-based experimentation skills as part of Reed College's junior-level Advanced Laboratory course and, along with his senior thesis students, used these skills to carry out many research projects. Essick is the editor of the Instructional Laboratories and Demonstrations section of the American Journal of Physics.

Texte du rabat

The Python-Based Laboratory provides a learn-by-doing approach to acquiring the Python programming skills needed to implement computer-controlled experimental work. The book can be used as a textbook for science and engineering instructional laboratory students who are being taught up-to-date Python-based experimental skills.

Résumé
The Python-Based Laboratory provides a learn-by-doing approach to acquiring the Python programming skills needed to implement computer-controlled experimental work. The book can be used as a textbook for science and engineering instructional laboratory students who are being taught up-to-date Python-based experimental skills.

Contenu

• 1: Python Program Development

• 2: Graphical User Interface Using Tkinter

• 3: Counted Looping and Waveform Plots

• 4: Conditional Looping and Real-Time Plots

• 5: GUI-Equipped Waveform Simulator

• 6: Introduction To Data Acquisition Device Features

• 7: Data Acquisition Using NI DAQ Device

• 8: Data Acquisition Using MCC DAQ Device

• 9: Data Files and Character Strings

• 10: Data Analysis: Curve Fitting

• 11: Data Analysis: Fast Fourier Transform

• 12: Control of Stand-Alone Instruments using VISA

• APPENDIX A: Installing Python and IDLE