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 ...

Chemical Kinetics lab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
"Iodine Clock" refers to a group of reactions which involve the mixing of two colorless solutions to produce a solution which remains colorless for a precise amount of time, then suddenly changes to a ...

Modeling Rocket Flight Trajectory part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
<a>An aeronautical of a Rocket Missile Launch</a>

Numerical Simulation Basics: Accuracy and Model Validation for a Finite-difference Equation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
This activity teaches students a few of the basic concepts for numerical simulation of physical systems by modeling the simple and well-known problem of free-fall. The recursion relation for the finite-difference ...

Transitioning from Excel to MATLAB Diffusion Models part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
This activity is part of a larger module that introduces students to two different ways to model chemical diffusion in minerals: 1) 1D diffusion in Excel using finite differences and 2) 1D diffusion in MATLAB using ...

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 ...

Breakeven Analysis Project part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
The project requires students to use basic programming skills in MATLAB to write a program that will perform a breakeven analysis for a proposed new elephant house at the local zoo. Students are given parameters ...

Guess the Number Game part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
The purpose of this activity is for students to practice the concepts listed below by writing code that simulates a guessing game between friends. Keywords: Loops, Random numbers, Programmer Defined Functions, ...

Vector Fields part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
This activity is exploratory and collaborative MATLAB activity. Students will explore and visualize vector fields. Students will also learn about the flow lines of the vector fields.