A set of classes for use in physical systems, this package is experimental! Requires: boost-1.61 (likely to work in other versions but has been tested with this build).
A simple class which can be given either Side-Side-Angle ("SSA") or Angle-Angle-Side ("AAS") value combinations, the other values are then calculated to give a triangle:
PKTriangle(par1,par2,par3,"AAS")
Two classes have been added which allow the inclusion of errors alongside variables. The Lorentz Vector class PKLorentzVector allows construction of a four vector using four PKVars with variables and their respective errors. Two examples have been included to illustrate:
g++ AddPKVars.cpp -o AddPKVars -I ../source/
g++ LorentzVectors.cpp -o LorentzVectors -I ../source/
compiling will produce the two excutables AddPKVars and LorentzVectors within the examples folder.
A class that allows the construction of up to a 10x10 matrix using PKVar variables. Construction is through either manually creating a std::vector<std::vector<PKVar> >, a vector of rows, the length then being the number of columns, or by creating an empty instance:
PKMatrix matrix;
matrix.addRow(PKVar(1,0),PKVar(0,0));
matrix.addRow(PKVar(0,0),PKVar(1,0));
this example being one of the Pauli matrices.
We recommend you compile the examples by running the included bash script:
bash ./make.sh
The script assumes you have a local copy of the BOOST library installed in the directory /usr/include. You can edit the script to alter the location if necessary. The executables for the examples are placed in the bin folder.