Learning Scientific Programming with Python (2nd edition)

Problems

• P6.1.1: A structured array of whale species data
• P6.1.2: The shoelace algorithm
• P6.1.3: Gaussian functions and their derivatives
• P6.2.1: 8000 m peaks
• P6.2.2: Airport distances
• P6.2.3: Immunization rates
• P6.3.1: Analysing lottery results
• P6.3.2: Plotting a histogram with pyplot.bar
• P6.3.3: Plotting a height distribution histogram
• P6.4.1: Analysis of a nuclear explosion
• P6.4.2: Linear Regression on four data sets
• P6.4.3: The van der Waals equation of state
• P6.4.4: Saturn V first stage launch analysis
• P6.5.1: Planck units of measurement
• P6.5.2: The moment of inertia tensor
• P6.5.3: Singular value decomposition
• P6.5.4: Finding the number of integers not containing the digit 5
• P6.5.5: The Fibonacci sequence by matrix similarity transform
• P6.5.6: Conic sections
• P6.5.7: Radioactive decay
• P6.6.1: Coin-flipping simulation
• P6.6.2: Buffon's needle
• P6.6.3: A simple model for chemotaxis
• P6.6.4: Modeling meanders
• P6.7.1: Apodization
• P6.7.2: Fourier expansion of a square wave
• P6.7.3: Fourier transform of a sound file