Bouncing Ball Explorer
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis
Emily Dosmar, University of Illinois - Chicago; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Estimation of Elastic Properties of a Composite Laminate Using Matlab
Syd Soltani, Florida Polytechnic University
In this activity, students learn how to use simple Matlab programming to determine the missing material properties for a composite laminate.

Iterative methods for solving linear systems
Blanca Guillén, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira, Mathematics
Students will learn Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods for solving linear systems. Students are also asked to generate the iterative matrices, decide about the convergence and compare the results obtained with ...

MatLab Challenges
Robert Gotwals, North Carolina School of Science and Math
This activity provides a first opportunity for computational science students to interact with MatLab. The activity includes relatively simple plotting, but also more complicated tasks such as computing a system of ...

Simulation of a Block Sliding down a Ramp with Friction
Darren Maczka, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
This activity is designed to help students gain experience implementing iterative and conditional structures in the context of a physics simulation. Students are given parameters for an object that is being ...

Fourbar linkage
Mingli Han, Prairie View A & M University
This activity performs position analysis for a fourbar linkage. Fourbar linkage is a classical mechanism used in Kinematic Design and Analysis course. Based on the given information on the fourbar linkage, students ...

Hydraulic Transients in Pipe Systems
Juneseok Lee, Manhattan University
Many water utilities have in-house hydraulic modeling capacities to analyze their systems in planning, design, operations, and management. However, many modeling efforts are geared toward or limited to a steady ...

Building Intuition for Fourier Series/Transforms
Jenny Magnes, Vassar College
This activity consists of two parts:1. Represent functions using Fourier series.2. Understanding how a function's properties manifest in reciprocal space.

Controls and Robotics
Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
In this activity, students will simulate the forward kinematics on a mobile robot given an initial pose and sensor location and how it moves in the global or reference frame from an initial position to a goal ...