Introduction to strings and DNA/protein sequence alignments part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is problem set that helps solidify concepts of computational processing (accessing data, parsing data, visualizing data, using preconstructed tools) and sequence matching, specifically in the context of ...

Simulating Passive Properties of Neurons Using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This lab activity simulates a fundamental concept in cellular neuroscience; namely that all neurons can be modeled as circuits (i.e., the equivalent circuit) composed of resistors and capacitors in parallel. The ...

Introduction to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This activity introduces graduate-level students to one-way (single-factor) analysis of variance (ANOVA). The students are familiar with MATLAB, but have little-to-no experience with ANOVA. The activity is ...

Modeling Rocket Flight Trajectory part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
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Investigating Real and Ideal gases part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This activity looks at the difference between real and ideal gas laws, emphasizing the connection of the physical properties to equations and graphs. Students first analyze the real gas equation, which should be ...

Climate change and extreme values analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
In this activity, we learn where to get climate data (monthly temperature maxima and monthly precipitation maxima) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). We learn how to fit a GEV ...

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 ...

Visualizing symmetry elements for crystal classes using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This assignment provides students practice in a mineralogy class to learn symmetry motifs, symmetry operations, and crystal classes by using the MTEX toolbox in MATLAB. The students will load the MTEX toolbox and ...

Introduction to Occupational and Rehabilitation Biomechanics part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Students are instructed to create a biomechanical model in MATLAB to simulate reaching as far forward and as fast as possible without falling. The goal of the project is to produce a model using realistic ...

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.