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Numerical Simulation Basics: Part II – Boundary Conditions & Numerical Stability for a Finite-Difference Equation
Jim Boyle, Western Connecticut State University
This is the second and last activity teaching numerical simulation basics to students in a junior-level physical oceanography course. In the first activity students program solutions for a 1st order differential ...

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

Measuring voting districts and distributions
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Engineering

Stress Map
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 ...

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

Design a basketball shooting machine
Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In this assignment, students will determine the appropriate exit velocity from a basketball shooting machine as it passes the ball back to the shooter on the free throw line. Students will simulate the trajectory ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Engineering, Physics

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions
Ethan Duckworth, Loyola College in Maryland
This module helps students learn/relearn about Taylor series, the remainder theorem, symbolic tools in MATLAB, and writing efficient functions for calculating transcendental functions. Students are reminded about ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Problem Set
Subject: Mathematics

Using AI as a guide to convert Scripts or M-files to APPS
Julio Hernandez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Engineering

Using AI to modify MATLAB-Scripts to MATLAB-Apps: General solution to computational problem.
Julio Hernandez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering

Solving Systems of Equations
Conroy Robinson, University of Technology, Jamaica
This activity is geared towards teaching students how to use MATLAB to solve systems of simultaneous equations, simplify and plot graphs of polynomials.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Engineering

Aitken's Method and Superconvergence
Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University-Mankato
This activity aims to explore Newton's method's efficiency for various cases. We also provide some ideas on improving or accelerating the convergence through numerical experiments.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
Subject: Mathematics, Engineering

Curve Fitting with Parametric Splines using the Artwork "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"
Bree Ettinger, Emory University
This activity focuses on curve fitting using parametric splines, a technique commonly used in numerical analysis to approximate complex curves. In this assignment, students are tasked with selecting a minimal ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Mathematics