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Richard Goldberg
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard Goldberg is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill. He has led the development of a new interdisciplinary engineering minor and major at UNC. He is interested in integrating engineering with the liberal arts and an entrepreneurial mindset. He teaches a variety of classes for first year students, seniors, and everyone in between and he enjoys designing and fabricating things in the makerspace whenever he has time. His primary research interest is in rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology for people with disabilities.
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Design a basketball shooting machine part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
In this assignment, students will determine the appropriate exit velocity from a basketball shooting machine as it passes the ball back to the shooter on the free throw line. Students will simulate the trajectory ...
Simulating a parachute fall part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
In this activity, students will simulate a falling parachute. The overall goal is to determine the parachute diameter needed to have a "safe landing" at a reasonable terminal velocity. In order to ...