physics-utils 0.4.0

Helpers for empirical data handling and plotting

PhysicsTools

This is a library for dealing with some tedious tasks for basic physics labs.

Be warned that, as this project is still in heavy development, backwards compatability can be broken between 0.x.0 versions. This is avoided as much as possible, but make sure to watch out for it when updating your installation.

Features

• Automatic uncertainty propagation on basic arithmetic and trigonometric operations
• Generated LaTeX steps of any calculations done with the MeasuredData class
• A physics scripting language for fast usage of the library
• Graping wrappers that take numbers with uncertainty for automatic error bars
• LaTeX data table generators

Installation

Look under the examples folder to see the library in use.

physics_utils can be installed straight from PyPI using pip, like so:

python3 -m pip install physics-utils

Usage

To get started with using the library, you can import MeasuredData from physics_utils and begin doing calculations like normal once your numbers are wrapped:

from physics_utils import MeasuredData

print(MeasuredData(2, 0.5) * MeasuredData(3, 0.4)) # 6±2.

To start using the scripting language, you can type python3 -m physics_utils.script in your terminal to start the interpreter, or python3 -m physics_utils.script <filename> to run a file. To do the same as the example above in the physics script interpreter, you'd just need to type this:

>>> 2~0.5 * 3~0.4
6±2.

And there are a number of other helpful features built into the language.

For more information on using the package, take a look at the documentation and examples.