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.

Understanding the Age of the Ocean Floor part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
In part 1, Students will use data collected during DSDP Leg 3 to plot the age of the sea floor at distances away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In part 2, they learn about paleomagnetic evidence and learn about the ...

SSBW - Python Tutorial 3: Pandas and an Earthquake Cross-Section part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using the basic syntax of Python commands, 2) use the functionality of the Pandas module to create DataFrames to store data, ...

MATLAB LIGO Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Foundational computational skills for physics students can be developed in an introductory 2-semester survey course for first-year university physics students using physics-data-driven exercises that introduce ...

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 ...

SSBW - Network Tutorial 1: Local Seismogram Viewer and the Moho part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS Local Seismogram Viewer to view a record section of local recordings from the 2011 M5 earthquake in Oklahoma, 2) ...

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching Materials:Activities
The module offers background content on the fundamentals of remote sensing, but also integrates a set of existing online tools for visualization and analysis of satellite observations. Specifically, students are ...

Assignment on Runge-Kutta Methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is a sample homework problem in a senior elective course on topics in applied mathematics. This particular problem requires the students to program forward Euler, backward Euler and an explicit 2-stage 2nd ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 2: GMAP, MDA, and MUSTANG Databrowser part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS GMAP Station Browser to identify what seismic stations have data available based on a geographic region, a time ...

Numerical Differentiation for Chemical Engineers part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
In this activity students learn to apply appropriate numerical differentation formulas to non-uniformly spaced data. The concept is applied to a chemical engineering problem where the goal is to measure how the ...