Bouncing Ball Explorer part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Simulation of a Block Sliding down a Ramp with Friction part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
This activity is designed to help students gain experience implementing iterative and conditional structures in the context of a physics simulation. Students are given parameters for an object that is being ...

Building Intuition for Fourier Series/Transforms part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
This activity consists of two parts:1. Represent functions using Fourier series.2. Understanding how a function's properties manifest in reciprocal space.

Iterative methods for solving linear systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Students will learn Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods for solving linear systems. Students are also asked to generate the iterative matrices, decide about the convergence and compare the results obtained with ...

MatLab Challenges part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
This activity provides a first opportunity for computational science students to interact with MatLab. The activity includes relatively simple plotting, but also more complicated tasks such as computing a system of ...

Creating your own Optimization code using numerical methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Students were taught how to use numerical methods such as the Golden Section search, Newton-Raphson and Secant method. These methods take a long time when doing by hand and the complexity of optimization problems ...

Estimation of Elastic Properties of a Composite Laminate Using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
In this activity, students learn how to use simple Matlab programming to determine the missing material properties for a composite laminate.

the importance of annotation: using published code to learn for loops and syntax. part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
In this activity, students used a published EEG analysis algorithm in conjunction with Mathwork's Matlab Onramp to learn basic matlab syntax and functions and to understand how for loops can be used to perform ...

The Human Matrix part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
For this activity, we will look at accessing data in a matrix and manipulating it. Students will again be arranged into several rectangular arrays. Each student will have a whiteboard to write down their assigned ...