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 ...

Animate Satellite Orbits Around a Planet part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity is suitable for HS students if they are interested in creating satellite orbits around any planet in the solar system. This can be further developed for more advanced HS or college students to address ...

Morse Code Audio part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This is an assignment in Audio and Image Processing course.The course is just being developed.The assignment requires students to write functions that are bulding block to generating Morse Code audio.

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 ...

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, ...

Teaching Programming to Reluctant Students part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Essays
Jeremy A Riousset, APSS, Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne I usually introduce my teaching philosophy on the first day of class via the following phrase: Science has not changed as much as the tools to ...

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 ...