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    Mathematica Mastering Mathematica Plotting: Tips and Tricks for Visualizing Your Data

    Nevermind, I figured out you could do this almost immediately after posting that column1 = Table[data[[i, 1]], {i, 1, Length[data]}]
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    Mathematica Mastering Mathematica Plotting: Tips and Tricks for Visualizing Your Data

    I have some data I imported into Mathematica. It has three columns. I want to plot col1 vs. col2, col2 vs. col3, and col1 vs. col3. I started out doing this Flatten[Partition[data, 3]] to get one long list. I'm kind of lost. Any help is appreciated!
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    Courses Which Undergrad Prob/Stat Course Should Physics Majors Take?

    My university has a a few different probability and statistics courses. I'm a physics major, and I want to take one of these two courses. The first one has Calc. I for a prerequisite. Here are some of the topics covered in this course: Basic probability & statistical inference...
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    Programs Advice for a former Theatre major doing a 180 into Physics?

    You may want to look at Illinois State. They allow second degree students, and their physics department is better than Eastern's. I know this first hand, and I may be a little biased, but I think it is a correct assessment. Check out the ISU physics website for more information. Also, Normal is...
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    Schools Grad schools for quantum computing/quantum information?

    Here are the 2010 U.S. News rankings for the 'Quantum' category FWIW. 1 MIT 2 Harvard 3 Caltech 4 Stanford 5 UC Santa Barbara 5 Colorado--Boulder 7 Princeton 8 Illinois--Urbana-Champaign 9 Maryland 10 UC Berkeley
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    Linux in Physics: Popularity and Preference

    Hello, Question: What Linux distribution do you think is most widely used in physics circles? Is it more widely used than Windows or OS X? Which OS do you prefer? Any responses are appreciated.
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    Mathematica Numerical Derivatives in Mathematica

    Okay, I think I have it working now. My data had an extra { at the beginning and the end. Now, when I type f = Interpolation[data] The output is InterpolatingFunction[{{0.02007,10.035}},<>] Which I believe is the proper output. Now, can I've tried the following code...
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    Mathematica Numerical Derivatives in Mathematica

    I tried that one too, but I receive the following error: Interpolation::inder : The order-2 derivative of {0.08028, 0.01704} is not a tensor of rank 2 with dimensions 2.>> I'm not sure what this means. Thanks for your help.
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    Mathematica Numerical Derivatives in Mathematica

    Thanks, but I'm having a problem still. I have my data imported, and I plotted it using ListPlot. It is a sin like curve with increasing amplitude as the x-values increase. I'm thinking that the data is not in the form that InterpolationFunction expects. I'm pretty new to...
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    Mathematica Numerical Derivatives in Mathematica

    I have some data in a text file. I want to import this data into Mathematica, and then I want to calculate the numerical derivatives of this data. In particular, I need to find the y value where the first derivative is equal to zero. I can import data. I can use the ND function for numerical...
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    How much should I remember from general physics?

    I've taken Calc I-III, Linear Alg, and Diff. Equations. I have been and will be reviewing some of the material from those classes too. I think our class has a short review on some of the math topics too. So that should help.
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    How much should I remember from general physics?

    I took the usual general physics classes about 4 years ago during my chemistry undergrad career. Now, I'm taking some more physics classes in order to go to grad school for physics. I'm going to be taking intermediate E&M and Mechanics. Will I have a hard time in these classes if I don't...
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    Should I Get a 1 or 2 Year Master's in Physics?

    Well, I'm going to end up taking almost every required undergraduate physics course, excepting some labs. For Cornell's master's degree, you have to do a thesis and I believe you can take physics classes that are the same ones that PhD students have to take. I may be wrong, though.
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    Should I Get a 1 or 2 Year Master's in Physics?

    I have an undergraduate degree in chemistry. I'm taking some physics classes and I plan on eventually getting a PhD in physics. I plan on getting a master's before I go for the PhD. This will allow me to fill in some gaps in my physics education. My question is, what are you guy's thoughts...
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    Mathematica Mathematica, Matrices and Graph Theory

    Hello I imported a 30 X 30 matrix into Mathematica. I made a graph out of this and then found the minimum spanning tree. Next, I printed off a list of the edges. I included the edgeweight option to get the associated weights listed next to each edge. My goal was to ultimately sum these...
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