[Tutor] coding help with maxwell-boltzmann distribution

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Oct 13 01:58:03 EDT 2017


On 12/10/17 21:22, Cameron McKay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've never used python trying to plot a graph. Thus I am having
> difficulties trying to plot the maxwell-boltzmann distribution. right now
> i've defined the y-axis given the probability, but the difficult part is
> trying to plot x in the form of:
> 
> x = v/(2kT/m)^(1/2)
> 
> before i used the linspace function but i believe that was wrong as it just
> gave me an exponential growth function as i need a bellcurve.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this,
> 
> Cameron
> 

Hopefully this helps 
https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.stats.maxwell.html

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