#Script to illustrate using Sage to analyze data concerning the decomposition of butadiene. #Times at which data was taken (seconds) times = [0, 1000, 1800, 2800, 3600, 4400, 5200, 6200]; #Times in seconds #Butadiene concentration, moles per liter at each time above data = [0.01, 0.00625, 0.00476, 0.0037, 0.00313, 0.0027, 0.00241, 0.00208]; #Plot the raw data versus time. Call the plot "plot1". pdata = list(zip(times,data)) plt1 = scatter_plot(pdata) show(plt1) #Does not look 0th order. Is it first order? Try a logarithmic transformation of the data (as was done for H2O2). log_of_data = [log(data[i]) for i in range(len(data))] pdatalog = list(zip(times,log_of_data)) plt2 = scatter_plot(pdatalog) show(plt2) #Not first order either (not a straight line). But fit a line y = -k*t+b to this data anyway. var('k, b, t') #Declare k,b,t as symbolic variables model(t) = k*t+b #Specify the model to be fit, with "t" as the independent variable sol = find_fit(pdatalog,model,parameters=[k,b]) #Fit the model by adjusting k and b f(t) = model(k=sol[0].rhs(),b=sol[1].rhs()) #Define the best fit function of the form in "model" #Now plot best-fit model overlayed on data plt3 = plot(f(t),t,[0,6200],color='red') pp = plt2+plt3 pp.axes_labels(['time (seconds)','log(concentration)']) show(pp) #Hmm, not too good. Doesn't appear to be first order...