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3-100-Ripcord-Toys-ModelingScenario
12 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brody Dylan Johnson
Saint Louis University
This modeling scenario examines the motion of a ripcord-powered toy with the goal of using real data to estimate parameters in a first-order model of the velocity of the toy. Students may conduct...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3605/?v=2
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2017-Craig_Tracy-Lectures on Differential Equations
01 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Tracy Craig
NA
These notes are for a one-quarter course in differential equations. The approach is to tie the study of differential equations to specific applications in physics with an emphasis on oscillatory...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3926/?v=1
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2011-Richard_Fitzpatrick-Newtonian_Dynamics
09 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Richard Fitzpatrick
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX USA
This 300 page text is packed with motivational physics. Indeed, Professor Fitzpatrick brings us to the origins of why differential equations are the dominant tools of mathematics in the study of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3769/?v=1
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3-100-Ripcord-Toys-ModelingScenario
20 Dec 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brody Dylan Johnson
Saint Louis University
This modeling scenario examines the motion of a ripcord-powered toy with the goal of using real data to estimate parameters in a first-order model of the velocity of the toy. Students may conduct...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3605/?v=1
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Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts
04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Eric T. Holland1, Greg Manley1, Tamara Chiba1, Rona Ramos1, Simon Mochrie1, Jennifer Frederick1
Yale University
Lesson on what it means for biological processes to be Poissonian, published in CourseSource
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1001/?v=1