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      First-Year Physics with MATLAB

      Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of Physics

      Duncan Carlsmith, professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses teaching first-year physics using MATLAB®. Professor Carlsmith highlights the benefits of MATLAB, including its cloud option, documentation, and free onramps. He also notes the capability to autograde assignments using MATLAB Grader™.

      Published: 21 Jul 2021

      I'm Duncan Carlsmith, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And I'd looked at MathWorks' products long ago.

      And I came back to it, stumbling around one more time, taking a look at what was available. And I was just blown away. I was like, this is perfect.

      It has a cloud option. If the student's laptop goes belly up, they can go on any computer and use it, and they're synced with their laptop. And so they're backed up.

      The documentation is just brilliant. And you go to the documentation for a function, and the documentation has 10 examples of how to use it. And every one of them is one click download, and you run it.

      And they're all physics. Yes, thank you, Cleve. They're all physics. It's like a physics course. It's just amazing.

      And then it has the symbolic stuff. It has engineering stuff. It has all these toolkits. And it is just so easy.

      And they even supply the Onramp. You just go, do the Onramp. You don't even need an account to do it. You can learn the syntax, and functions, and lots of stuff. It's just so easy.

      So for all those reasons, I was thrilled. And fortunately, my campus has a campus license. For my purposes, it just checked all the boxes for things I absolutely had to have, like the cloud source, the cloud option.

      This MATLAB Grader thing is cool too, and so I'm just about to do that. That makes things all auto-graded.

      And it's like how do you get the resources to grade all these codes that students might write? Well, you have a machine do it. That's what you do, right?

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