Re: framed plots with two y axes scales
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- Subject: [mg79956] Re: framed plots with two y axes scales
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 05:28:53 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <acbec1a40708082003m7cd87835y13c699611eb2bd79@mail.gmail.com>
In addition, the last example I gave shows that the same setting for
FrameTicks is actually giving ticks with different labels, too. What's
up with this program?
On 8/8/07, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
> Actually, I suspect a subtle error in Mathematica's code instead of
> mine, since I think the following plots should have identical tick
> sizes:
>
> Plot[t,{t,0,2},Frame->True]
> Show[%,AbsoluteOptions[%,FrameTicks]]
>
> On 8/8/07, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
> > In the old version of Mathematica, I used David Park's Draw Graphics
> > package to obtain graphs with two y axes scales. I was successful in
> > making these graphs without the package in the new version, but my
> > technique involves a lot of code. Is there a cleaner way, such as
> > being able to specify a scaling factor between both sides?
> >
> > Simple example:
> > Height of a ball thrown straight up in a gravitational field with some
> > initial velocity and no drag:
> >
> > plotExpr=h@t/.DSolve[m h''@t==-m g&&h'@0==v0&&h@0==0,h,t]/.{g->9.80665,v0->10}
> > labelRightAxisTicks=Function[gr,With[{frameTicks=FrameTicks/.AbsoluteOptions[gr,FrameTicks],cf=3.2808},Show[gr,FrameTicks->Append[Drop[frameTicks,-1],{#1,If[#2=!="",SetPrecision[#1
> > cf,3],""],##3}&@@@frameTicks[[2]]]]]]
> > Plot[Evaluate@plotExpr,{t,0,2},Frame->True,FrameLabel->{"t (s)","h
> > (m)",None,"h (ft)"}]
> > labelRightAxisTicks@%
> >
> > Also, I suspect a subtle error in my code because the tick marks are
> > not the size they should be (relative to the plot area).
> >
> >
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> >
>
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