Tip of the Week - Interactive Apps for ODE Analysis and Learning
If you teach ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or use ODEs in your class, a common challenge you may have encountered is helping your students overcome the ‘mathematical intimidation’ of the concepts. You can use the Phase Plane and Slope Field apps, developed and shared by the MathWorks Online Teaching team, to let your students develop a visual intuition of ODEs by qualitative analysis.
These apps capture the functionality of the wildly popular PPlane and DField apps created by John C. Polking in MATLAB between 1995 and 2003. While similar in function to the original apps, the Slope Field and Phase Plane apps have been written entirely from scratch in MATLAB App Designer using modern MATLAB coding practices. This makes the new apps easier to maintain, edit, and use.
Get the apps on GitHub, and visit the MATLAB and Simulink Courseware page for more curriculum resources tailored to multiple disciplines.
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This is great, Div! I wasn't familiar with the original apps by John C. Polking, but I can certainly see that this can help students understand the ODE concepts visually. Thanks for sharing.
