SIGkit (Software for Introductory Geophysics toolkit) for modelling and visualization of data part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Predicting what geophysical data may look like and making basic inferences from data are critical learning outcomes of introductory geophysics courses whether they happen in a classroom or in a field setting. This ...

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology part of Activities
Emad Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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 ...

Transitioning from Excel to MATLAB Diffusion Models part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Kendra Lynn, University of Delaware
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 ...

MATLAB Explorations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Joan Weiss, Fairfield University
"MATLAB Exploration" assignments encourage students to use MATLAB as a tool to explore mathematical concepts. Two sample assignments are included. One is a brief introductory assignment for students in ...

Classification Exercise - Pattern Recognition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This exercise contains instructions for a university project related to pattern recognition using MATLAB. Students are tasked with testing a pre-designed classifier, analyzing results, and submitting a detailed ...

Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.

Gravity prospecting part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Activities
James Conder, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Students are given a set of gravity data with the aim of finding high density anomalies in the subsurface. Keywords: Data analysis; inverse modeling

MATLAB LIGO Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 ...

Using MATLAB to understand distributions: Pokémon GO part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
This problem set will help teach students how to describe real world distributions. Data science skills that will be covered include measures of central tendency and spread, transformations of distributions, ...

Robot Kinematics Modelling with MATLAB Robotics System Toolbox part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop Dec 2021:Activities
Thanacha Choopojcharoen, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
In this assignment, students must implement forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and differential kinematics of 3-DOF robot and compare their implementation with the ones from MATLAB Robotics System Toolbox.