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Kohler Curves part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
An assignment teaching students about Kohler curves that enhances their quantitative skills.
Estimating Exchange Rates of Water in Embayments using Simple Budget Equations. part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
Simple budgets may be used to estimate the exchange of water in embayments that capitalize on the concept of steady state and conservation principals. This is especially true for bays that experience a ...
Mathematical Skills: Functions:Linear, Functions, Basic Skills, :Arithmetic, Higher Order Skills:Estimation, Order of Magnitude Calculations, Basic Skills:Units, Simple Equations, Exponents, Scientific Notation, Higher Order Skills:Problem Solving
Three-Point Problem by Simultaneous Linear Equations part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
Students are introduced to the use of linear algebra in an intuitive and accessible way, through classroom activity and homework set. The familiar three-point problem is cast in terms of three dimensional ...
Mathematical Skills: Technology:Spreadsheets, Elementary Programming, Geometry and Trigonometry:Planes, Pythagorean Theorem, Trigonometry, 3D, Geometry and Trigonometry, Functions:Trigonometric, Basic Skills:Curve Fitting, Simple Equations, Graphs:Visualization of Data, Higher Order Skills:Estimation, Linear Mathematics:Systems of Equations, Vectors, Interdisciplinary Concepts:Simulation, Linear Mathematics:Matrices, Linear Mathematics, Higher Order Skills:Models, Problem Solving, Technology:Mathematical Software
Assessing the error of linear and planar field data using Fisher statistics part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
Instruction on use of Fisher statistics to determine the mean and 95% confidence interval of geological vectors, lines or planes, with examples, problems and an Excel spreadsheet for computation.
Mathematical Skills: Geometry and Trigonometry:Lines, Planes, Linear Mathematics:Vectors, Geometry and Trigonometry:Coordinate Systems, Basic Skills:Simple Equations, Geometry and Trigonometry:3D, Probability and Statistics:Spatial Statistics, Probability, Technology:Spreadsheets, Probability and Statistics:Distributions, Graphs:Visualization of Data
Using a mass balance model to understand carbon dioxide and its connection to global warming part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
Students explore the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 40 years with an interactive on-line model.
What is the fate of CO2 produced by fossil fuel combustion? part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
A box model is used to simulate the build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere during the industrial era and predict the future increase in atmospheric CO2 levels during the next century.
Mathematical Skills: Basic Skills, :Simple Equations, Scientific Notation, Arithmetic, Graphs, :Visualization of Data, Higher Order Skills:Problem Solving, Models, Higher Order Skills, Interdisciplinary Concepts
Viscosity of the Mantle: Constraints from Post-glacial Rebound part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
This laboratory experiment emphasizes the exponential nature of post-glacial rebound and reinforces the relationship between the rate of rebound and the viscosity of the mantle.
Mathematical Skills: Graphs:Relationships Among Variables, Log-log/Log-linear Plots, Higher Order Skills, :Models, Interdisciplinary Concepts:Mechanics, Interdisciplinary Concepts, Graphs:Interpretation of Graphical Information, Functions:Logarithm, Calculus and Analysis:Gradients, Derivative, Calculus and Analysis, :Integral, Ordinary Differential Equations, Functions:Exponential, Functions, Graphs
Continental Crust Mass Balance Calculation part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
A quantitative skills-intensive exercise using data from the Mineral Mountains, Utah, to calculate mass balance and to address the "space problem" involved with emplacing plutons into the crust.
Mathematical Skills: Higher Order Skills:Problem Solving Strategies, Technology:Spreadsheets, Higher Order Skills:Problem Solving, Basic Skills:Scientific Notation, Arithmetic, Simple Equations, Units
Atmospheric vertical structure and the First Law of Thermodynamics part of Quantitative Skills:Activities:Quant Skills 04 Activities
This set of homework problems is intended to help students begin to discover the importance and utility of conservation principles derived from the First Law of Thermodynamics and provide a first step in ...
