Plotting in MilliNewtons in Mathematica

[pinsky]

Hello there!

I'm doing a plot of some measured forces in mathematica. I have the measured values (in Newtons) in the form:

{0, 0.000981, 0.004905, 0.001962, 0.002943, 0.003924, 0.005886,0.006867, 0.007848}

When i plot it (as ListPlot against some other set of values) those small numbers don't look very nice on the axis.

I'm trying to find a way to plot in miliNewtons, so that the values on the axis would be multyplied by 1000, but so that my plot wouldn't change.

I've googled for a hour and a half, and found no hint to a solution. I't seems like a fairly common thing to do.

Help...

 

[phyzguy]

Why don't you just multiply the values by 1000, then label the axis in milliNewton, as follows:

Dat = {0, 0.000981, 0.004905, 0.001962, 0.002943, 0.003924, 0.005886, 
   0.006867, 0.007848};

ListPlot[Dat*1000, AxesLabel -> {Xaxis, milliNewton}]

 

[pinsky]

The whole situation is that I have to draw the data f(U²)=F in form os measured data together with the aproximated regresion line. If I multiply it by 1000 i have to apply the changes to the line function which changes it's slope.