Example Bisection Method Problem in MATLAB Grader part of Past Workshops: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 ...

Numerical Simulation Basics: Accuracy and Model Validation for a Finite-difference Equation part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Jim Boyle, Western Connecticut State University
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 ...

Scaling sizes of sports field part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
This is a MATLAB live script that guides students to learn about the kinematics of thrown balls in various sports. It helps the students learn about simple numerical methods to solve differential equations, as well ...

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology part of Teaching Materials: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 ...

Bouncing Ball Explorer part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

Making Sense of Gait Ground Reaction Force Data part of Past Workshops: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.

Exploring hypothesis-driven research using Arduino boards and Matlab part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Sara Wilson, University of Kansas
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 ...

Physical Activity and Heart Rates part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jennifer Jordan, Virginia Commonwealth University
This problem is an assessment of several computational methods being pulled together to solve a complex problem for biomedical engineering students. Students need to use mock clinical data to compute whether study ...

Conduction and Convection in a Fin of Uniform Cross Section part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Yuxin Zhang, Washington State University
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 ...

Dimensional Analysis and Flow Visualization Using MATLAB part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Kianoosh Yousefi, The University of Texas at Dallas
In this MATLAB-based activity, students develop two general computational modules, one for automated dimensional analysis using the Buckingham π theorem, and another for streamline and pathline visualization for ...