Lecture Courses
PX3A4 Plasma Physics- 1st 5 weeks of spring term- see moodle page
PX391 Nonlinearity, Chaos, Complexity course now retired
Follow the above link for course materials and recorded lectures.
MPAGS Module : Time Series Analysis- an Introduction to Advanced Methods
Given occasionally in Autumn Term.
Lecture Notes
These are written to supplement, not replace, the lectures, and so are terse in style.
lecturenotes-spectralestimates.pdf
lecturenotes-generalizingfourier.pdf
lecturenotes_structurefunctions.pdf
lecturenotes_complex_measures.pdf
Project and Assessment
To take part in this course for credit you will need to do the exercise in data analysis- this will be described in detail in the lectures. You will need to look at the RXTE websites:
The Readme files on RXTE Quicklook datafiles and the datasets are: RXTE ASM Lightcurves
For what is expected in the report: report.pdf
Reference material
Matlab's own demos (both in Matlab and in the signal processing and wavelets toolboxes) are highly recommended.
Basic Fourier theory: basicfourierintro.pdf (courtesy The Math Forum@Drexel Library) and Matlab intro basicfouriermatlab.pdf
Higher Order Spectra: ddw_review_hos_2003.pdf
Wavelets: torrence_compo_wavelets_1998.pdf farge_wavelets_turb1996.pdf farge_wavelets_turb2002.pdf
Observing power laws: clausetpowerlaws.pdf
Pi theorem, Buckingham's original paper: buckingham1914.pdf and an application to turbulence and SOC: chapmanpitheorem.pdf