Re: [ATM] Understanding Foucault

[Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>]

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>Sixtest needs some sort of frame-grabber, no?
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No, Sixtests just takes numeric input.  It is intended for use with 
manually measured Foucault (and other test) data, but if you have an 
automated Foucault measurement system of some sort, it will work with 
that data too, so long as you can enter both the zone radius and 
longitudinal knife edge position for each measurement.

If you do manual Foucault testing, and make multiple measurements in 
order to gain the benefits of averaging, you may find my program 
FrontSix to be helpful.  FrontSix will take your multiple reading data, 
do the averaging and calculate a pooled standard deviation, then spit 
the results out in Sixtests input file format.  In fact, FrontSix can be 
set up to start Sixtests right from the FrontSix interface.  FrontSix 
will also work with Figure4.5 and FigureXP for those that prefer those 
programs.

FrontSix is at  http://www.atmsite.org/contrib/Holm/frontsix/frontsix.html

Sixtests is at  
http://home.earthlink.net/~burrjaw/atm/atm_math.lwp/atm_math.htm  You 
probably want the Windows version.

Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com
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