Numerical Simulation Basics: Accuracy and Model Validation for a Finite-difference Equation
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 ...

Battleship
Blain Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics including indexing matrices and vectors, extracting data from a matrix, operating on data from a matrix, ...

Physico-chemical Oceanographic data analysis
Most Israt Jahan Mili, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
This activity is a part of the course that can be used for either physical oceanography (CTD data profiling) or chemical oceanography lab exercise. This is included with the real-time field sampling data that was ...

Wordle GUI Application
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
We will introduce a project in which students will use Matlab to create a Wordle game GUI application. In this project, students will need to complete a series of tasks in MATLAB, such as data management, GUI ...

Example of a First Order Temperature Instrument in a Practical Situation
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This is an example adapted from the textbook "Measurement and Instrumentation Principles from Alan S. Morris". It shows the power of Matlab when working with Differential Equations, Laplace Transforms, ...

Chemical Kinetics lab
Bhavna Rawal, Lonestar community college, chemistry
"Iodine Clock" refers to a group of reactions which involve the mixing of two colorless solutions to produce a solution which remains colorless for a precise amount of time, then suddenly changes to a ...

Downloading data and data manipulation
i gouirand, the UWI
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the use of Matlab commands for opening and processing climate data. The climate data is retrieved from https://iri.columbia.edu as a netcdf file. The main objective is ...

Data Visualization and Phase Identification through Stacked Plots
Sujat Sen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
In this classroom activity, students will take experimentally collected powder X-Ray diffraction (XRD) data they have acquired from a laboratory exercise and plot it collectively as a stacked plot against known ...

Air Volume Control of a Medical Ventilator
Yih-Choung Yu, Lafayette College
This lab assignment was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which students were taking hands on lab remotely. The purpose for the assignment is to guide students to apply the PID motor angular position ...

Optimal Wing Profile Design
Yong Suh, California State University-Sacramento
The mechanism of how an aircraft flies is a complex problem. One of the most well-known facts is that the profile of the wings creates a buoyancy force due to pressure differences caused by the air flows through ...