Tips on Making Your Graph Behave

This will try to help you do the following

• Graph a 'single' object moving in xy space, as in monkey-hunter
• Adjust graph axes for max, min, and whether or not the axis automatically adjusts
• Adding new series to a graph
• Changing one series you didn't want into one you do want

Graph a single object, like one mass point as a function of time (x,t)

• [Detailed instructions for animating the monkey and hunter.]
• Suppose you want to graph x and y and that they are in A5 and A6 as functions of the time.
• Drag over A5..A6 and go to the chart wizard (just to get any old graph up)
• Select the X-Y(Scatter) graph, (any version showing individual data points)
• Click 'Finish' to bring up the graph.
• Right-click on one of the data points on the graph
• Select Source Data, then Series
• In Series, you will see the X Values and Y Values listed.
• If they are OK, great. Otherwise, correct them to reflect the single x and y value you desire.
• This is just a matter of typing in the correct cell ranges
• You may want to adjust the symbol and size and color.
• This is done by right-clicking on a data point and selecting Format Data Series.

 

• To add a second object to be graphed, first get a graph of a single object.
• Then right-click on the data point. Under Source Data / Series, select Add.
• Put in the x,y values for your second point (it may be helpful to copy x or y from Series 1, paste it in and then adjust its values.).
• Adjusting the second symbol is done as for the first one. (Symbol color is done via Background)

• To adjust the y-axis values, you first right-click just to the left of the y-axis itself.
• This brings up a box, and you select Format Axis and then Scale
• Under Scale, you can select Max, Min and other axis parameters.
• The default is automatic scaling of the axes.
• If you want an axis parameter to be permanent, unclick the Auto box for that parameter
• To adjust the x-axis, right-click just below the x-axis, or on one of the x-axis values
• After that it's just like adjusting the y-axis.