Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Instrumentation structures and using the IBM-PC
- 3 Thermistor experiments
- 4 Timing
- 5 Thermal diffusion
- 6 IBM-PC architecture and assembly language programming
- 7 Viscosity measurement
- 8 Interrupts
- 9 Other topics
- Appendix A Laboratory materials and sources
- Appendix B Graphing programs and disk configuration
- Appendix C IBM-PC memory map
- Appendix D Connections and logic of the ADC
- Appendix E 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface data sheets
- Appendix F Solution for heat flow in one dimension
- Appendix G Finite impulse heat flow in a rod
- Appendix H 8088 Microprocessor data sheets
- Appendix I 8253 Programmable interval timer data sheets
- Appendix J 8250/8251 Programmable Communication Interface
- Appendix K Bibliography and sources
- Index
Appendix B - Graphing programs and disk configuration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Instrumentation structures and using the IBM-PC
- 3 Thermistor experiments
- 4 Timing
- 5 Thermal diffusion
- 6 IBM-PC architecture and assembly language programming
- 7 Viscosity measurement
- 8 Interrupts
- 9 Other topics
- Appendix A Laboratory materials and sources
- Appendix B Graphing programs and disk configuration
- Appendix C IBM-PC memory map
- Appendix D Connections and logic of the ADC
- Appendix E 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface data sheets
- Appendix F Solution for heat flow in one dimension
- Appendix G Finite impulse heat flow in a rod
- Appendix H 8088 Microprocessor data sheets
- Appendix I 8253 Programmable interval timer data sheets
- Appendix J 8250/8251 Programmable Communication Interface
- Appendix K Bibliography and sources
- Index
Summary
In addition to Turbo Pascal, a graphing program is needed which is capable of drawing engineering graphs on the screen and the printer. There are several ways to do this. One is to use the primitive graphics functions of Turbo Pascal itself to build a library of graphing procedures. This has the advantage of making the graphics functions available in the program generating the data but is a much larger task than it initially appears to be. The Turbo Graphics Toolbox available from Borland International provides some plotting features, but generally it concentrates on graphics rather than graphing which limits its usefulness.
Using a spread sheet program is another way of graphing data. It has the advantage of also allowing the data to be transformed before graphing. However, the graph formats are frequently limited (eg, a single set of abscissa values and no logarithmic scales) and a file of the data must be written before it is used.
There are a number of stand alone graphing programs on the market now which can make beautiful graphs. Some of them allow data manipulation as well. Please see the list of programs which follows.
A wish: Someone please make an engineering graphing program (memory resident?) which can be used from within a program to make quick graphs on the screen or printer of data and models.
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- IBM-PC in the Laboratory , pp. 135 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990