2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award
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EXPERIMENTS FOR NUMERICAL METHODS
An attempt to develop low cost, low space, low setup time experiments has been made. Read the following paper to find out how the experiments are being implemented in the classroom. Assessment results of including the experiments in the class at USF will be available in September 2008 and will be presented at the 2008 FIE Conference (links will be added at the time of availability). |
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The Length of a Curve: This experiment illustrates the difference in using curve fitting with polynomial interpolants and spline interpolants.
To the student: A handout is given to the students that gives the background information on the experiment, how to collect the data, and exercises that need to solved.
To the Instructor: Do you want to put this experiment together for your class? Find out to see what materials you need to buy, where you can buy the materials, and how much it costs.
Experimental Data: If you do not want to conduct the experiment but want the data.
Topics Covered: Interpolation and Integration
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Strains in a Loaded Truss: This experiment illustrates the use of simultaneous linear equations in finding the forces in the members of a truss.
To the student: A handout is given to the students that gives the background information on the experiment, how to collect the data, and exercises that need to solved.
To the Instructor: Do you want to put this experiment together for your class? Find out to see what materials you need to buy, where you can buy the materials, see engineering drawings, and how much it costs. (COMING SOON)
Experimental Data: If you do not want to conduct the experiment but want the data.
Topics Covered: Simultaneous Linear Equations |
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Cooling a Aluminum Cylinder in Iced Water: This experiment illustrates several key concepts of numerical methods, mainly regression to find physical constants from collected date.
To the student: A handout is given to the students that gives the background information on the experiment, how to collect the data, and exercises that need to solved.
To the Instructor: Do you want to put this experiment together for your class? Find out to see what materials you need to buy, where you can buy the materials, see engineering drawings, and how much it costs. (COMING SOON)
Experimental Data: If you do not want to conduct the experiment but want the temperature vs time data. You will need to look at the handout also to get other needed data.
Topics Covered: Regression, Nonlinear Equations, Integration, Ordinary Differential Equations, Differentiation |
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Twisting a Mousetrap Spring:
This experiment illustrates the concept of regression to find the
constants of a linear model of a torsional spring. Integration is
used to find the torsional energy stored in the spring.
'To the student: A handout is given to the students that gives the background information on the experiment, how to collect the data, and exercises that need to solved.
To the Instructor: Do you want to put this experiment together for your class? Find out to see what materials you need to buy, where you can buy the materials, see engineering drawings, and how much it costs. (COMING SOON)
Experimental Data: If you do not want to conduct the experiment but want the forces vs angle data. Topics Covered: Regression, Integration |
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Hold Your Water in a Champagne Glass: This experiment illustrates several key concepts of numerical methods, mainly spline interpolation and integration.
To the student: A handout is given to the students that gives the background information on the experiment, how to collect the data, and exercises that need to solved.
To the Instructor: Do you want to put this experiment together for your class? Find out to see what materials you need to buy, where you can buy the materials, and how much it costs.
Experimental Data: If you do not want to conduct the experiment but want the radius vs height data.
Topics Covered: Interpolation, Integration |
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