Introducing Students to Nonlinear Model Fitting with Jupyter Notebooks Through a Quantitative Diffraction Experiment
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Jerome Fung and Lauri Wardell
The sophomore-level laboratory at Wellesley College emphasizes the development of data analysis and visualization skills. We use the Jupyter notebook computational environment, which combines code, output, and commentary into a single document. Here, we describe the experiment that introduces our students to nonlinear model fitting. Students translate a photodiode across a diffraction pattern to measure the spatial dependence of the pattern intensity, fit values predicted by the Fraunhofer approximation to their measured data, and determine parameters like the width of a diffracting slit with ? 0.5 µm precision. We discuss how Jupyter notebooks encourage data transparency and foster student sense-making.
2018 Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College
Part of the BFY Conference series Baltimore, MD: July 25-27, 2018
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Title = {Introducing Students to Nonlinear Model Fitting with Jupyter Notebooks Through a Quantitative Diffraction Experiment},
BookTitle = {2018 Conference on Laboratory Instruction Beyond the First Year of College},
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Series = {BFY Conference},
Month = {July 25-27},
Year = {2018}
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