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Synthesizing Marine Data Sets using MATLAB
Diane Fribance, Coastal Carolina University
Students use MATLAB to analyze an oceanographic data set collected in an estuary on a class boat trip, and put it into context using time-series data downloaded from online sources. Some basic oceanographic ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
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Exploring Fish Diversity in Australia's Marine Ecoregions
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
This activity accomplishes two tasks. First it teaches students about the concepts of species richness and biodiversity using a global data set of marine fish diversity. Second, it teaches them about application ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science, Biology

Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab
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.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science, Geoscience

Simulating Passive Properties of Neurons Using Matlab
Michael Wright, California State University-Sacramento
This lab activity simulates a fundamental concept in cellular neuroscience; namely that all neurons can be modeled as circuits (i.e., the equivalent circuit) composed of resistors and capacitors in parallel. The ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Biology
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Visualizing symmetry elements for crystal classes using MATLAB
Jeremy Deans, University of Southern Mississippi
This assignment provides students practice in a mineralogy class to learn symmetry motifs, symmetry operations, and crystal classes by using the MTEX toolbox in MATLAB. The students will load the MTEX toolbox and ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience

Traffic Data Interpolation
Cynthia Flores, California State University-Channel Islands
The goal of this assignment is for students to demonstrate understanding of numerical interpolation through an intensive writing prompt. Two methods are implemented in MATLAB, Lagrange interpolation, and ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Lab Activity
Subject: Mathematics

Sunspots
Thomas Kelley, Northeastern University
In this assignment, students use MATLAB to import raw sunspot data and output processed sunspot data.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Physics

Arduino Pendulum Physics Lab
Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks
Easy to build pendulum lab to acquire data from an Arduino, analyze the data to find the period of the pendulum, and connect theory with the experiment using symbolic calculations.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Physics