Repurpose sampling_period for unit scaling, as in
b6575f25

This commit addresses issue #20.

When the plotting routines in postprocessor.routines are imported in a
different script or module, it raises an error that indicates that
`plottingabc` or `single_plot` are not found.

This is because I attempted to use relative imports without accounting
for how Python usually imports things, especially in a project with
multiple directories and multiple layers.  Relative imports can be done
via:

    from .foo import bar

But I opted against that in favour of absolute imports (the solution
implemented) because it conforms to PEP8.

This should not affect anywhere else in the code base as these are the
only bits where `plottingabc` and `single_plot` are used.