Data Analysis Activity Using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this activity students will develop a model of air resistance, then perform an experiment using coffee filters, rulers and a stopwatch to test it. They will collect the data, then analyze it and produce a high ...

Kinetics of Herbicide Photodegradation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
This lab activity is designed to connect student's knowledge of reaction rates to actual data and an unfamiliar system (photodegradation of phenylurea herbicides in the presence of various catalysts). Students ...

Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

MATLAB LIGO Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Foundational computational skills for physics students can be developed in an introductory 2-semester survey course for first-year university physics students using physics-data-driven exercises that introduce ...

MATLAB is an "easy programming" tool to each engineering discipline part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Yevgeny Gayev, Aerospace Control Systems Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine I am an insistent propagator of active methods in teaching of everything. Of course, in teaching Physics but also in ...

The Role of Computation in 21st Century part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Today, perhaps the most desired skill required is computation. We see the application of computation in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer aided drug design, financial models, earth observations, ...

MATLAB' "easy programming" for discipline "Information Processes and Coding" part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Yevgeny Gayev, Aerospace Control Systems Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine Being familiar with MATLAB (see my Essay1) allows to educator realize pedagogical approach of "own ...

PHYS 175: Advanced Physics Laboratory part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Course Descriptions
Physics 175 is a "quasi-capstone" course for physics majors. In this course, students are expected to hone and demonstrate their physics knowledge in a laboratory setting. Emphasis will be placed on ...

Foundational computation for first-year physics undergraduates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Duncan Carlsmith, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison The AAPT/APS Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Education report [1] examines the motivations for, goals of, and barriers to including computation ...

Modeling in Geometric Optics part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this project the students will simulate the uniform reflection property of a parabolic surface. That is, they will use the law of reflection along with finding slopes of tangent lines using calculus method and ...