Pasco Science WorkshopTM
Graph Setup Options
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To
change the graph setup options, click the graph setup icon
().
Alternatiively, you can click in the Graph Window, and select "Set Up
Active Display" from the Display Menu.
The
Graph Setup dialog will open: The options are:
- Name: You can type a new name for the graph, if you
choose.
- Data Points: If this is not checked, data points won't
be displayed. Is there a good reason to do that? If you don't show
the data points, you must select "Connected Points" or "Bar Graph"
to have anything displayed in the Graph Window.
- Connected Points: This is a "connect the dots" style
graph. You will probably want to uncheck this one, for just about
all physics graphs.
- Bar Graph: Displays the data as a bar graph - not
generally useful for physics experiments.
- Grid: Show/hide the graph paper background.
- Point Protectors: Graphic elements that draw attention
to the location of data points, which can sometimes be hard to
see. Personal preference, here.
- Integral Histogram: This is used in conjunction with
the Bar Graph.
- Auto-Scale During Sampling: If this option is checked,
the graph will automatically rescale itself if a data point would
fall outside of the current graph.
- Auto-Scale Time Axis: If this option is checked, the
graph will automatically rescale itself if the time for a data
point falls outside the current horizontal graph range.
- Error Bars: You can choose either horizontal or
vertical error bars (or both). If the "%" box is checked, then the
value in the "+/-" field is interpreted as a relative
uncertainty, otherwise it is interpreted as an absolute
uncertainty.
BHS
-> Staff
-> Mr. Stanbrough ->Pasco
Interface Notes-> this page
last update July 5, 2000 by JL
Stanbrough