A Daily Dose of MATLAB for College Freshmen part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Teaching first-year college students, with my colleague Adam Maloof, as part of a research-oriented "Freshman Seminar" involves teaching students MATLAB -- from scratch to proficiency. Rather than sharing ...

Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

Simple MATLAB Grader Exercises part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
This activity is the first set of Matlab exercises given in a remotely delivered, introductory geochemistry class taught to 1st-semester, 1st-year majors in Earth and Planetary Sciences. ir assignments. ...

Introduction to MATLAB for Geomorphology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
This is a lab for a Geomorphology course intended to introduce students to modeling landform evolution by means of applying a common sediment transport law to the erosion of a hillslope over time. MATLAB is used to ...

Isostasy and crustal thickness part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Students will write a matlab code to calculate crustal thickness of 5 locations. Calculations will use topography (determined by running a matlab script that creates a clickable map) and nominal density values, and ...

Working with Scientific Data Sets in Matlab: Intra-annual variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Data Interpolation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Sea surface temperature is a critical variable that determines biogeographic and distribution patterns of marine organisms. Changes in temperature influence species reproduction and survival and can affect the ...

Visualizing outcrop patterns from strike/dip data using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Charly Bank discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.This lab activity allows ...

Introduction to geochemical calculations using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Activities
This activity is designed to teach the students how to find and use MATLAB functions to solve equations and to write simple programs to calculate chemical equilibria.

Choice of geophone layout in a simple near-surface seismics setting part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Alain Plattner discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.We use MATLAB functions ...

Investigation solution methods for the groundwater flow equations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
This activity is used in my groundwater flow modeling class (GEOS-724), a class for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. In advance, the students receive an introduction to MATLAB and basic programming ...