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Heather Whitney
Wheaton College (IL)
Associate Professor of Physics, Wheaton College
Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago Department of Radiology
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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 ...