Lab 2: Powder X-ray Diffraction
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Lab 2: Powder X-ray Diffraction¶
Welcome to Lab 2! You will be analyzing more X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectra in this lab, so you will be applying all of the skills you learned in the previous lab. Moreover, there are a few calculations that you will have to do in order to determine the crystal structure (e.g., computing lattice constants), which gives us an opportunity to teach you how to work with tabular data in Python, a very useful skill. 🐼 You may find that these techniques are helpful for your homework as well. 😉
The primary outcomes of these notebooks are:
Apply more Matplotlib commands to fine-tune your plots.
Use basic functions associated with pandas and DataFrames to work with tabular data.
Tip
If this is your first week using these supplementary exercises, it might be helpful to first skim through the exercises from last week (MSE 104L laboratory 1 exercises) or the previous tutorials (e.g., Introduction to Python, Introduction to data visualization in Python). Enjoy!