Numerical Simulation Basics: Part II – Boundary Conditions & Numerical Stability for a Finite-Difference Equation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This is the second and last activity teaching numerical simulation basics to students in a junior-level physical oceanography course. In the first activity students program solutions for a 1st order differential ...

Measuring voting districts and distributions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Stress Map part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

Design a basketball shooting machine part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
In this assignment, students will determine the appropriate exit velocity from a basketball shooting machine as it passes the ball back to the shooter on the free throw line. Students will simulate the trajectory ...

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This module helps students learn/relearn about Taylor series, the remainder theorem, symbolic tools in MATLAB, and writing efficient functions for calculating transcendental functions. Students are reminded about ...

Using AI as a guide to convert Scripts or M-files to APPS part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Using AI to modify MATLAB-Scripts to MATLAB-Apps: General solution to computational problem. part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Solving Systems of Equations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity is geared towards teaching students how to use MATLAB to solve systems of simultaneous equations, simplify and plot graphs of polynomials.

Aitken's Method and Superconvergence part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity aims to explore Newton's method's efficiency for various cases. We also provide some ideas on improving or accelerating the convergence through numerical experiments.

Curve Fitting with Parametric Splines using the Artwork "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
This activity focuses on curve fitting using parametric splines, a technique commonly used in numerical analysis to approximate complex curves. In this assignment, students are tasked with selecting a minimal ...