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1-031-CoolIt-ModelingScenario
We offer data on the temperature of water in a beaker in a room of constant temperature and in a room of nonconstant temperature. Students consider both empirical and analytic modeling approaches. We offer additional data sets in Excel...
Spanish
Newton's Law of Cooling
cooling
Modeling Scenario
351
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814
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0
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1-015-Torricelli-ModelingScenario
We help students develop a model (Torricelli's Law) for the height of a falling column of water with a small hole in the container at the bottom of the column of water through which water exits the column.
data
Spanish
tank
column of water
aperture
Torricelli's Law
Conservation of Energyt
Solver
water flow
Excel Solver
Modeling Scenario
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1-007-AntTunnelBuilding-ModelingScenario
We pose the prospect of modeling just how long an ant takes to build a tunnel. With a bit of guidance students produce a model for the time it takes to build a tunnel of length x into the side of a damp sandy hill.
Spanish
hormiga
túnel
ant
tunnel
Modeling Scenario
501
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203
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1-008-HangTime-ModelingScenario
We present a modeling opportunity for students in which they model the vertical position of a basketball player taking a jump shot. The goal of the scenario is to get students to consider the meaning of the notion ``hang-tune.''
gravity
hang tim
Newton's Second Law of Motion
jump shot
Modeling Scenario
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511
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0
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1-076-ClimateBifurcation-ModelingScenario
We cover simple zero and one dimensional models for the mean temperature of the Earth. These models can exhibit bifurcations.
energy balance
climate
energy
albedo
Hysteresis
bifurcation
ice-age
greenhouse
balance
Stefan Boltzmann Law
Modeling Scenario
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134
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0
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1-087-ThanosPopulationDynamics-ModelingScenario
In the end of the “Avengers Infinity War,” the villain Thanos snaps his fingers and turns half of all living creatures to dust with the hope of restoring balance to the natural world. How does this affect the long term behavior of various species?
logistic
exponential
population
Thanos
Modeling Scenario
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330
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0
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1-033-SouthernBarbeque-ModelingScenario
We offer raw data collected from two thermometers used in the smoking process of Southern barbecue. One thermometer measures the temperature inside of the smoke chamber and the other measures the internal temperature of the meat.
nonlinear regression
logistic
Newton's Law of Cooling-Warming
barbecue
Modeling Scenario
221
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105
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0
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1-014-DrainingContainers
Given two rectangular circular cylinders of water with the same volume, but different radii, with a small bore hole of same radius on the center of the bottom through which water exits the cylinder, which empties faster?
containers
tank
flow
Torricelli's Law
draining
fixed volume
Modeling Scenario
265
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154
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0
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1-003-CollegeSavings-ModelingScenario
We present a modeling opportunity for students in which they have to plan and model for saving for a child's complete college education.
college
savings
interest rate
college cost
sensitiviyty
Modeling Scenario
423
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253
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0
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1-050-BargingAhead-ModelingScenario
As captain of a barge, you need to determine how fast to transport your barge up river against the current in order to minimize the expended energy.
optimization
kinetics
energy
trophic efficiency
work
river
terminal velocity
friction
current
force
barge
worlk
speed
Modeling Scenario
250
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161
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0
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1-058-WaterClocks-ModelingScenario
We apply Torricelli's Law to the task of building a water clock in which the height of the water in a container falls at a constant rate when the container has a hole in the bottom to let the water flow out.
flow
Torricelli's Law
spigots
water clock
Modeling Scenario
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161
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1-063-ThreeHoleColumnOfWater-ModelingScenario
We consider a column of water with three holes or spigots through which water can exit and ask students to model the height of the column of water over time.
falling
column of water
Torricelli's Law
multiple spigots
spigots
Modeling Scenario
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144
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1-066-USCensusModeling-ModelingScenario
The United States Census, conducted every 10 years, gives data on the United States population, that can be modeled with the exponential, logistic, or Gompertz functions.
data
logistic
population
Gompertz
census
goodness of fit
Modeling Scenario
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221
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0
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1-088-RoomTemperature-ModelingScenario
Students will analyze temperature variations in a room using Newton's Cooling Law. In this model, the only influence on the indoor temperature is the (oscillating) outdoor temperature (as we assume the heating/cooling system is broken).
environment
climate
temperature
Newton's Law of Cooling
cooling
periodic function
Modeling Scenario
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211
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0
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1-090-EmptySphericalTank-ModelingScenario
We model the emptying of water from a spherical tank. First, we pump out water at a constant rate. Second, we allow the water to exit through a small hole in the bottom of the tank. We seek to determine how fast the water level is falling in both...
Volume
sphere
Torricelli's Law
timing
spherical tank
fluid
empty
Modeling Scenario
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156
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0
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1-093-SucroseReaction-ModelingScenario
We offer data on the hydrolysis of sucrose in the presence of catalyst sucrase. We present students with several models and ask which model is best. We ask students to estimate parameters for the best model.
kinetics
Michaelis-Menten
hydrolysis
reaction
sucrose
Modeling Scenario
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109
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0
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1-122-SpreadPEV-ModelingScenario
We present data on world sales data of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) and request a model on the rate of change in sales over time, leading to prediction as to number of PEVs in the future.
data
logistic
prediction
spread
plug-in vehicle
PEV
Modeling Scenario
160
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109
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0
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1-134-LanguageDynamics-ModelingScenario
Students will be introduced to a mathematical model for language dynamics. Specifically, the model describes the change in the fraction of a population speaking one language over another.
language
compartment
phase lines
bifurcation
switching
Modeling Scenario
202
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157
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0
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3-010-EnergyInSpringMassSystem-ModlingScenario
As a way to synthesize the effects of damping and forcing terms, this activity is meant to encourage students to explore how different forcing terms will change the total energy in a mass-spring system.
energy
mass-spring system
kinetic energy
potential energy
total energy
Modeling Scenario
214
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201
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0
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3-013-WhiffleBallFall-ModelingScenario
We are given data on the time and position of a whiffle ball as it falls to the ground. We attempt to model the falling ball and we confront the different resistance terms and models.
Akaike Information Criterion
resistance
gravity
Free Body Diagram
force
falling object
Whiffle ball
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