Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers

John Essick is Professor of Physics at Reed College. Since 1993, he has taught computer-based experimentation using LabVIEW as part of Reed's junior-level Advanced Laboratory and used LabVIEW to carry out many research projects.

1. LABVIEW PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; 2. THE WHILE LOOP AND WAVEFORM CHART; 3. THE FOR LOOP AND WAVEFORM GRAPH; 4. THE MATHSCRIPT NODE AND XY GRAPH; 5. DATA ACQUISTION USING DAQ ASSISTANT; 6. DATA FILES AND CHARACTER STRINGS; 7. SHIFT REGISTERS; .7 MOVING AVERAGE OF ARBITRARY NUMBER OF TRACES; 8. THE CASE STRUCTURE; 9. DATA DEPENDENCY AND THE SEQUENCE STRUCTURE; 10. ANALYSIS VIS: CURVE FITTING; 11. ANALYSIS VIS: FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM; 12. DATA ACQUISITION AND GENERATION USING DAQMX VIS; 13. CONTROL OF STAND-ALONE INSTRUMENTS; APPENDIX A. FORMULA NODE PROGRAMMING FOR CHAPTER 4; APPENDIX B. MATHEMATICS OF LEAKAGE AND WINDOWING; APPENDIX C. PID TEMPERATURE CONTROL PROJECT