Cool Roof part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This project is a hands-on, open-ended, collaborative assessment of students' abilities to collect numerical data, and develop mathematical models of naturally occurring phenomena. Students design physical ...

Simulation Klein-Nishina cross section using the Monte Carlo method part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Project is designed for students learning radiologic physics and radiation dosimetry in a Medical Physics graduate program. The project is designed to reinforce course concepts on the Compton Effect and associated ...

Sunspots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
In this assignment, students use MATLAB to import raw sunspot data and output processed sunspot data.

Arduino Pendulum Physics Lab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Easy to build pendulum lab to acquire data from an Arduino, analyze the data to find the period of the pendulum, and connect theory with the experiment using symbolic calculations.

Use of Matlab to reinforce concepts of Compton effect part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities I recall on my time as a first year graduate student taking a course on radiologic physics and radiation dosimetry and remember well seeing this equation: (d_e ...

Programming Applications for Engineers part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Course Descriptions
Programming Applications for Engineers is an integrated, lecture-lab, semester-long course that introduces lower-division engineering and physics students to numerical analysis and computational problem solving. ...

Dropping a Stone from a Bridge part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This activity is for a course called Physics 3, which is a complimentary course students take after general physics. The focus is to revisit the concepts using computational techniques or more advance calculus. In ...

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 ...

The success of implementing a MATLAB project in a Medical Physics course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
David Sterling, Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Implementing computational projects in the classroom has helped my students understand material better and more quickly than they did before ...

Using Mastery Learning Ideas to Assess Student Work part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Thomas Kelley, Physics, Northeastern University Using Mastery Learning Ideas to Assess Student Work Assessing the skills of my students is the hardest part of teaching coding and/or programming. Assessing a ...