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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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Simulation of a Block Sliding down a Ramp with Friction
Darren Maczka, The University of Tennessee
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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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