KTU-Scientific Computing Lab

Dr. Hari V S Department of Electronics and Communication College of Engineering Chengannur What You Will Learn You will learn the syntax of for, while loops and if statement in Python You will apply these to solve a mathematical problem. For loop Python identifies code blocks by indentation. The for loop has the syntax shown below. Observe the colon at the end of the first line and the indentation at the start of the second line. Whatever is to happen under the for loop should be given as an indented block. If the indentation is wrong, it raises an exception. for i in range(0,10): print i The above code prints the integers from 0 to 9. One can modify the above code for appending the values to a blank array as shown in the following code. from scipy import * arr=[] for i in range(0,10): arr.append(i) print arr The loops being slow, the above method is not encouraged. Instead, vectorized computation is used as shown below. from scipy impor...

What You Will Learn You will create lists, arrays and matrices using scipy You will learn to slice, reverse, append and plot arrays Lists in Python Type in the code at the Ipython console from scipy import * x=[1,2,3,4,5] The first line imports all modules in scipy. The second line creates a list in the variable x. Type x at the console and observe the list Type x[0:2] at the console and observe the first two values in the list Type x[3:5] at the console and observe a slice of the list Type x[::-1] at the console and observe the reversed list Type len(x) at the console and observe the length of the list x Type y=[4,5,6] and then type x+y observe the two lists getting concatenated. Type append(x,y) observe a similar result Type z=['apple','orange','pear'] to create a list of strings Arrays using Scipy scipy and numpy provide arrays that support mathematical operations. Type x=array([1,2,3,4,5]) at the cons...

Introduction Scientific computing broadly means computations carried out for scientific or engineering needs. This mostly includes processing of large arrays or matrices, plotting of functions, solving equations, performing mathematical transforms etc very fast while keeping programming hassles at a minimum. Requirements of Scientific Computing The language for scientific computing should be Interpreted should be modular should have easy routines for array, matrix and vectors should have a publication quality plotting library Python for Scientific Computing Python is an interpreted, modular language that is suitable for scientific computing. Modules such as numpy, scipy etc provide many scientific computing tools. The module matpplotlib alias pylab provides publication quality plotting libraries. Python 2.7 and Python 3 are available in all major Linux distros and can be installed as bundle such as anaconda in Windows. An enhanced Python shell ipython...