Stress Map part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
James Conder, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

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 ...

Guess the Number Game part of Past Workshops: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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...