Week of 10/29

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A few examples of the importance of Gaussian distributions

Central Limit Theorem

Maxwell Boltzmann velocity distribution

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It turns out that the FWHM is nontrivial: this link shows how to compute it

the answer turns out to be $2 \sqrt{2 \ln 2} \sigma \approx 2.3548 \sigma$

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Paul Dirac's bio

Two nice links on Sinc functions: from Mathworld and Wikipedia

The following two figures are from Barbara Romanowicz, a seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Download lecture notes from 10/31/07

Download Sinc function interpolation via the samping theorem