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It turns out that the FWHM is nontrivial: [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html this link shows how to compute it] | It turns out that the FWHM is nontrivial: [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GaussianFunction.html this link shows how to compute it] | ||
| − | the answer turns out to be <math>2 \sqrt{2 \ln 2} \sigma</math> | + | the answer turns out to be <math>2 \sqrt{2 \ln 2} \sigma \approx 2.3548 \sigma </math> |
Revision as of 17:16, 29 October 2007
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A few examples of the importance of Gaussian distributions
Maxwell Boltzmann velocity distribution
It turns out that the FWHM is nontrivial: this link shows how to compute it
the answer turns out to be 
