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1.9.10 Some Special Plots

As discussed in Section 2.10, Mathematica includes a full graphics programming language. In this language, you can set up many different kinds of plots. A few of the common ones are included in standard Mathematica packages.

<<Graphics` load a package to set up additional graphics functions
LogPlot[f, {x,  ,  }] generate a log-linear plot
LogLogPlot[f, {x,  ,  }] generate a log-log plot
LogListPlot[list] generate a log-linear plot from a list of data
LogLogListPlot[list] generate a log-log plot from a list of data
PolarPlot[r, {t,  ,  }] generate a polar plot of the radius r as a function of angle t
ErrorListPlot[{{ ,  ,  }, ... }]
generate a plot of data with error bars
TextListPlot[{{ ,  , " "}, ... }]
plot a list of data with each point given by the text string
BarChart[list] plot a list of data as a bar chart
PieChart[list] plot a list of data as a pie chart
PlotVectorField[{ ,  }, {x,  ,  }, {y,  ,  }]
plot the vector field corresponding to the vector function f
ListPlotVectorField[list] plot the vector field corresponding to the two-dimensional array of vectors in list
SphericalPlot3D[r, {theta, min, max}, {phi, min, max}]
generate a three-dimensional spherical plot

Some special plotting functions defined in standard Mathematica packages.
This loads a standard Mathematica package to set up additional graphics functions.

In[1]:=  <<Graphics`

This generates a log-linear plot.

In[2]:=  LogPlot[ Exp[-x] + 4 Exp[-2x], {x, 0, 6} ]

Out[2]=

Here is a list of the first 10 primes.

In[3]:=  p = Table[Prime[n], {n, 10}]

Out[3]=

This plots the primes using the integers 1, 2, 3, ... as plotting symbols.

In[4]:=  TextListPlot[p]

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Here is a bar chart of the primes.

In[5]:=  BarChart[p]

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This gives a pie chart.

In[6]:=  PieChart[p]

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