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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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Physics
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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 ...

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

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Mathematics

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.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Engineering

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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology, Computer Science

Hydraulic Transients in Pipe Systems
Juneseok Lee, Manhattan College
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 ...

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

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

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

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

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Engineering, Computer Science

Final Project: Plotting in MATLAB w. Loops
Jordan Bittner, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this assignment you will be asked to manipulate data using MATLAB to create a set of plots. Each chart should have the correct x-y axis labels as well as a descriptive title and legend. You will submit a pdf ...

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

Pop-Up Programming
Blain Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics such as indexing an array, vector, or matrix. The class is arranged so that the students are seated in a ...

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