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, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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 ...

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 ...

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

Creating your own Optimization code using numerical methods
Gisella Lamas, University of Kentucky
Students were taught how to use numerical methods such as the Golden Section search, Newton-Raphson and Secant method. These methods take a long time when doing by hand and the complexity of optimization problems ...

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 ...

Review of MATLAB Basics
Neha Raikar, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
This activity is designed to recap some basic MATLAB concepts. Depending on the MATLAB computing background the student may have, this live script is supposed to be a refresher

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 ...