On Dec 15, 2007 10:04 AM, Todd Sformo <> wrote: > Dear Dr. Stein, > I just heard about Sage and am excited about trying it. I have a > question: I work on overwintering physiology of arctic insects. To > detect when they freeze, I hook up a thermocouple to the insect and lower > the temperature. When an insect freezes, it releases the heat of > crystallization, which is seen as a spike in temperature. What I see then > on the x-axis is time (recording every 5 seconds) and temperature (C) on > the y-axis. Would Sage allow me to integrate the area under the curve?
Yes, definitely, and also draw a nice plot of your data. If you get frustrated figuring out *how* to do this, join the sage-support mailing list, and post some actual data, and you'll get help -- writing Sage is such a vast amount of work for everyone involved that helping with some applications is actually relatively little additional work. > FYI: some of these insects can resist freezing down to -58C. Wow. So do some insects really freeze that much, then thaw out and are alive later?! > Thanks for your time. > -Todd > > Todd Sformo > University of Alaska Fairbanks/ > Institute of Arctic Biology --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
