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 ...

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 ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis
Emily Dosmar, University of Illinois - Chicago
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 ...

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 ...

Intro to MATLAB Labs
James Long, Liberty University
Set of seven labs in a tutorial format to introduce MATLAB to the first-year student/programmer. Uses MATLAB for Engineering Applications, 5th edition, by William J. Palm III as a reference. Students complete the ...

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 ...

Making a PB+J
Hannah Zierden, University of Maryland-College Park
sandwich, pseudocode, introduction

Simulate Multi-Core
Subramaniam Ganesan, Oakland University
Simulate Multiple cores for parallel programming and performance analysis as the number of cores increase.

the importance of annotation: using published code to learn for loops and syntax.
rachel bergstrom, Beloit College
In this activity, students used a published EEG analysis algorithm in conjunction with Mathwork's Matlab Onramp to learn basic matlab syntax and functions and to understand how for loops can be used to perform ...