Exploring hypothesis-driven research using Arduino boards and Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Sara Wilson, University of Kansas Main Campus
In this activity, students explore hypothesis-driven research through the development of an experiment using Arduino Uno style microcontroller boards and Matlab. This project encourages students to develop a ...

Example Bisection Method Problem in MATLAB Grader part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Roche de Guzman, Hofstra University
Here's an example of a text book problem in Numerical Methods that was converted to a MATLAB Grader assignment to assess students in a more automated and interactive way. Other problems can be modeled and ...

Conduction and Convection in a Fin of Uniform Cross Section part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Yuxin Zhang, Washington State University-Tri Cities
Conduction and convection are two important modes of heat transfer. To understand the mechanisms of these two types of heat transfer processes, we study the temperature distribution in a fin of uniform cross ...

Illustrating Theorems from Calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Michaela Kubacki, Middlebury College
In this activity, students use MATLAB to create and interact with illustrations of three theorems from Calculus: (1) Extreme Value Theorem, (2) Intermediate Value Theorem, and (3) Mean Value Theorem. The assignment ...

Virtual Pendulum Experiments & Mechanical Oscillations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jeremy Riousset, Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne
The pendulum motion is one of the first encounters with the concept of a harmonic oscillator. This activity seeks to complement a traditional, rigorous, theoretical approach with a rigorous numerical model. It ...

Guess the Number Game part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Carolina Barriento, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach
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, ...

Electrical Circuit Virtual Lab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
The students are introduced to design/implementation, testing and verification Electric Circuit problem using MATLAB Simulink Simscape and Live Scripts to understand the concept better. This will increase the ...

Making Sense of Gait Ground Reaction Force Data part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
John Rogers, U.S. Military Academy
Students analyze a data set containing ground reaction forces from a human walking on an instrumented treadmill.

Forced Response with Coulomb Damping part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Natasha Smith, University of Virginia-Main Campus
Students determine and plot the response of a vibrating system under a harmonic excitation force, in the presence of Coulomb Damping. The assignment requires students to solve a 2nd order differential equation ...

Solving First Order ODE's part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Rick Downs, Seattle Community College-South Campus
This assignment is for a Differential Equations course that has students use a computer to solve first order ODE's graphically using slope fields, numerically, and analytically. One part of the assignment has ...