Simulation Klein-Nishina cross section using the Monte Carlo method
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Project is designed for students learning radiologic physics and radiation dosimetry in a Medical Physics graduate program. The project is designed to reinforce course concepts on the Compton Effect and associated ...

Cool Roof
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project is a hands-on, open-ended, collaborative assessment of students' abilities to collect numerical data, and develop mathematical models of naturally occurring phenomena. Students design physical ...

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

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.

Initial value problems
Heather Whitney, Wheaton College (IL)
This is a very open-ended project in which I assemble student groups of 5-6 students. They are required to select and model a physical problem using initial value methods or adaptive methods. This is a summative ...

Dropping a Stone from a Bridge
Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa
This activity is for a course called Physics 3, which is a complimentary course students take after general physics. The focus is to revisit the concepts using computational techniques or more advance calculus. In ...