PHY 335 Data Analysis for Physicists, Fall 2024

PHY 335 Data Analysis for Physicists, Fall 2024

Course Information:

Instructor:	Christopher B. Crawford, 7-2504, CP281
Office hours:	Wed/Thurs 4:00-5:00, or by appointment at CP281 or Zoom
Class schedule:	Tues/Thurs 9:30-10:45, CP111
CMS:	Announcements and assignments are managed in Canvas.
Textbook:	Bevington and Robinson, "Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences (3rd Edition)," (optional)
	John R. Taylor, "An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements (2nd Edition)" (supplement)

Resources:	syllabus, student resources, course feedback,

Homework

HW	Due Date	Problems

X01	Mon, 9/09	pdf, Rev. A (source, fig1)
X02	Mon, 9/16	pdf, Rev. A (source)
X03	Mon, 9/24	pdf, Rev. B (source)
X04	Mon, 9/30	pdf, Rev. B (source)

H05	Mon, 10/14	pdf, Rev. A (source)
H06	Mon, 10/21	pdf, Rev. A (source)
H07	Mon, 10/28	pdf, Rev. A (source)
H08	Mon, 11/04	pdf, Rev. A (source, )

T09	Mon, 11/11	pdf, Rev. A
P10	Mon, 12/18	pdf, Rev. A

Lecture Notes

Date	Reading	Homework		Lecture

9/03			C00	Introduction (SPS/Cosmic Lunch flyer, Leaning Center flyer).
0/05	B1.1-4	X01	C01	Probability distributions (notes).

Resources
- Press, Teukolsky, Vetterling, and Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C
- Abramowitz and Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical functions, NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
- Wolfram Mathematica Online Integrator