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| author | bryan newbold <bnewbold@twinleaf.com> | 2014-11-05 23:23:39 -0800 |
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| committer | bryan newbold <bnewbold@twinleaf.com> | 2014-11-05 23:24:29 -0800 |
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diff --git a/physics/fwhm.txt b/physics/fwhm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ab25eb --- /dev/null +++ b/physics/fwhm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + +Why Full-Width, Half Max (FWHM)? +----------------------------------- + +If you have two peaks with the same shape overlapping each other, they will +combine into a single peak with no dip between them (aka, no concavity, +assuming that the peak shape is convex up to the FWHM point) if they +overlap up to the FWHM. + +While peak fitting could extract more information, the FWHM is a reasonable +bound on the simple ability to differentiate "features" or "structure". |