James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2007

PH5006 - Data Analysis

Credit points: 03
Year: 2007
Student Contribution Band: Band 2
Administered by: Discipline of Physics (pre 2009)

Noise in physical systems; Rice Distribution for weak signals; statistical properties of zero crossing rates, discriminator level crossings and local maxima; spectral analysis, filtering, fast Fourier Transform algorithm, Nyquist sampling; other spectral analyses; correlation analysis; information theory.

Learning Outcomes

Inadmissible
Subject
Combinations:
PH4001

Availabilities

Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coord/Lect: Professor Mal Heron.
Contact hours:
  • 25 hours lectures
    Assessment:end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).

    Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
    Census Date 31-Aug-2007
    Coord/Lect: Professor Mal Heron.
    Contact hours:
    • 25 hours lectures
      Assessment:end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).

      Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.