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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Human Matrix
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
For this activity, we will look at accessing data in a matrix and manipulating it. Students will again be arranged into several rectangular arrays. Each student will have a whiteboard to write down their assigned ...

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

Regression problems in real time
Rizwan Qureshi, University of Central Florida
In this activity, we will be testing various regression models and analyze the effects of different objective functions, regularization terms and formulations. We will analyze the effect of different outliers on ...