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 ...

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 ...

Applications of the Power Method
Hoa Nguyen, Trinity University
This activity is designed for a course in Linear Algebra for undergraduate students. The focus is the Power Method and two applications. The Power Method is used to find the dominant eigenvalue (if it exists) of a ...

Hurricane Time Series Analysis
Henry Potter, Texas A & M University
This activity uses Atlantic hurricane data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Students will run the code provided to produce figures (scatter plots, time series, and histograms) that ...

Modeling Solar Panel Output and Battery Storage Using Real World Data in Matlab
Jason Smith, Michigan State University
Activity Description: This project involves designing and analyzing a home solar panel system using MATLAB. Students are tasked with calculating energy output, battery storage levels, and energy needs over time ...

Function Telephone
Blain Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics including function input and output, function information exchange, and global and local variables in the ...

Analyzing GPS time series data in Central California
Jill Pearse, California State University-Long Beach
This activity is designed for advanced undergraduate Geology students in a Data Analysis course, to introduce them to time series analysis. No programming experience is assumed, but students are expected to have ...

Numerical calculation of the allowed wavefunctions in a one-dimensional infinite potential well
Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Numerical calculation of the allowed wavefunctions in a one-dimensional infinite potential well

Matrix Coding & Decoding
Edith Aguirre, El Paso Community College
The activity provides students with a 3x3 matrix key that will be used to code and decode messages. Students will use MatLab to code, and matrix multiplication to encrypt a message. Then their encrypted message ...

Forward and inverse kinematics of a robot arm
Louis Woodhams, Washington University in St. Louis
Students will cover the derivation of the forward kinematics of a robot arm with an end effector (effector position as a function of joint angle) and write a forward kinematics function. They will then cover ...