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Plotting Graphs in Excel: For Use With Your Hooke's Law Data
Plotting Graphs in Excel: For Use With Your Hooke's Law Data
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
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For Use with Your Hooke’s Law Data
2017
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
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Do check that your gaph looks correct. Sometimes Excel has a huff and produces nonsense. Usually you need to go back
start again and only highlight the data and not the headings! It doesn’t like blanks in cells, so don’t leave any!
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You can then insert Chart and Axes Click on Legend – select none.
Titles and label axes with units.
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
Click on Trendline
Select “More Trendline Options”.
Select “linear” if appropriate.
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Click on “Display
Equation on Chart”
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
Select Both
Click on
Custom and
then
Specify
Value
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Click to highlight
data insertion
box.
Click and drag down column to insert
value of +Y in data box.
Click Okay
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Changes to Horizontal
Error Bars
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Graph of Y vs X
14
10
Y / units
6
0
1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0
X / Units
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Plotting Graphs in Excel
Y Intercept
Gradient
Uncertainty in
Uncertainty
in Gradient Y Intercept
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