smurph Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 What graphing software do you use on labs? Our teacher wants us to use Graph 4.3 but I find it too finicky. I guess I can't really complain because it is free but I just wanted to know what the alternatives are. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmt Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 We use Logger Pro 3. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeG Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 What graphing software do you use on labs? Our teacher wants us to use Graph 4.3 but I find it too finicky. I guess I can't really complain because it is free but I just wanted to know what the alternatives are.There's always Excel, but honestly that's a real pain to use for "scientific" graphs. Taking away the Chart Wizard was a horrible mistake by Microsoft. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abu Posted November 13, 2010 Report Share Posted November 13, 2010 I used Grapher on my mac. Alternatively, for my IA, it was easier to hook up my TI-83 to the computer and draw the graphs on there. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted November 14, 2010 Report Share Posted November 14, 2010 We use Logger Pro 3.We use this too, it's pretty amazing. There is a LoggerPro 4 now though Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted November 14, 2010 Report Share Posted November 14, 2010 We use Logger Pro 3.We use this too, it's pretty amazing. There is a LoggerPro 4 now though Is it a freeware? Haha my teacher suggested the same software. Can it automatically give us the extreme lines? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted November 14, 2010 Report Share Posted November 14, 2010 We use Logger Pro 3.We use this too, it's pretty amazing. There is a LoggerPro 4 now though Is it a freeware? Haha my teacher suggested the same software. Can it automatically give us the extreme lines?Yea, it's free, and I'm not sure what you mean by extreme line but it has an extensive list of possible lines of best fit and also the ability to define a new line (handy for radioactive decay ). You can change the scales of graphs by simply changing the last number on the axis at the moment. You can manually record data, or you can have it inputed from a Vernier LabQuest. It's very handy for experiments were you can observer something yourself such as electric current or voltage etc and even then if you set it to record 100 samples in 10sec you have 100 trials in 10sec instead of doing it one at a time Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 We use AutoGraph 4 in school. It works pretty well. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 We use Logger Pro 3.We use this too, it's pretty amazing. There is a LoggerPro 4 now though Is it a freeware? Haha my teacher suggested the same software. Can it automatically give us the extreme lines?Yea, it's free, and I'm not sure what you mean by extreme line but it has an extensive list of possible lines of best fit and also the ability to define a new line (handy for radioactive decay ). You can change the scales of graphs by simply changing the last number on the axis at the moment. You can manually record data, or you can have it inputed from a Vernier LabQuest. It's very handy for experiments were you can observer something yourself such as electric current or voltage etc and even then if you set it to record 100 samples in 10sec you have 100 trials in 10sec instead of doing it one at a time Oh cool. So where can I get them from? I meant maximum and minimum lines. My teacher calls them the extreme lines because in excel you would need to edit the data series thing and I find it a bit fuzzy wuzzy. Logger Pro sounds like a perfect graphing software for Physics Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmt Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 Is Logger Pro free? I was under the impression that you had to buy it? I'm not sure though, our school provided us with the software. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karn S. Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 I am also using Logger Pro, but I just can't seem to find how to put in the min-max value line. Could anybody explain? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drake Glau Posted November 15, 2010 Report Share Posted November 15, 2010 I'm still not sure what is meant by this min-max value line, maybe it hasn't been needed for the labs we've been doing though...I don't know. It's free as far as I know. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalan E Posted December 7, 2010 Report Share Posted December 7, 2010 We use logger pro 3 as well. It pretty much does anything you can think of. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC_JackBlind Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 Autograph is definitely a good graphing tool as this review page mentions:http://www.chartwellyorke.com/Autograph/reviews.htmSomeone above metioned Version 4 which I couldn't find... As far as I'm aware there's a version 3.3 but i might be wrong. In any case I've used it for multiple Internal Assessments, Presentations and other things and I've only gotten positive feedback so far so I do recommend it very highly! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JavierG Posted December 21, 2010 Report Share Posted December 21, 2010 I've been using Geogebra for my linear ecuations portfolio. It's quite simple, but it does a nice job. It's freeware tooHave any of you used Derive 6? they've told me about it, but apart from being a soft which you have to pay for, it's hard to use, although it's extremely good.Another good one is Wolfram's Mathematica. It's also cool for any other thing you have to do. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fan Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 At our school we use logger pro 3. Its a pretty neat software if you get your hands on a few nice experiments to do with it Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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