Heather Whitney

Wheaton College (IL)

Associate Professor of Physics, Wheaton College

Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Department of Radiology 

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activity (1)

Initial value problems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is a very open-ended project in which I assemble student groups of 5-6 students. They are required to select and model a physical problem using initial value methods or adaptive methods. This is a summative ...

Essay (1)

Coding is Thinking part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Heather Whitney, Physics, Wheaton College (IL) Coding is Thinking Most of the courses I teach in our major make use of computation, but they are at different levels, so there are different, but related, challenges ...