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7-008-MachineReplacement-ModelingScenario
Students build an integro-differential equation model using a convolution for machine replacement strategies for two different machine failure models.
Probability
replacement number
Laplace transform
industrial engineering
machine
convolution
distributioj
step function
derivative definition
Modeling Scenario
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280
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1-116-TropicalStormWindspeeds-ModelingScenario
We model the decay of tropical cyclone winds once a storm makes landfall. We use data from two recent storms from the National Hurricane Center to estimate parameters emanating from a differential equation using a first order exponential decay model.
hurricane
decay
tropical storm
cyclones
Modeling Scenario
451
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176
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0
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1-046-GoingViral-ModelingScenario
Students participate in a simulation of the spread of a viral disease in the classroom and model the process with a logistic differential equation. The simulation uses random numbers and the entire class participates.
simulation
mathematical model
data
logistic
random number generator
fitting
random process
Modeling Scenario
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200
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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
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1-038-Ebola-ModelingScenario
Students will use data published by the World Health Organization to model the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. We begin with a simple exponential growth model and move through the modeling process to the logistic growth model.
population dynamics
data analysis
exponential growth
Ebola
logistic
epidemic
Modeling Scenario
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477
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6-016-PandemicModeling-ModelingScenario
The recent coronavirus outbreak has infected millions of people worldwide and spread to over 200 countries. How can we use differential equations to study the spread of coronavirus?
population dynamics
infectious disease
disease
Ebola
e
SIR models
COVID19
pandemic
epidemic
reproduction number
Modeling Scenario
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145
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0
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1-001c-PopulationDecayThenSome-ModelingScenario
You will be modeling the following situation: 100 people are in a hotel. Each day, each person has a random chance of 50% of leaving the hotel. No new people enter the hotel.
simulation
occupancy
population
hotel
Modeling Scenario
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1-047-Condensation-ModelingScenario
We simulate the random motion of 200 particles in a 50 by 50 square in which a particle bounces off the two vertical and top walls and condenses on the bottom wall. Animations are produced and data is offered for modeling with a differential...
simulation
sum of square errors
condensation
best fit
Modeling Scenario
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136
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0
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1-115-ModelingWithFirstOrderODEs-ModelingScenario
Several models using first order differential equations are offered with some questions on formulating a differential equations model with solutions provided.
bacteria
falling object
Newton's Law of Cooling
drug
cooling
drag
Modeling Scenario
246
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265
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0
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1-002-Tossing-ModelingScenario
We offer students simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches, to include exponential decay fit, difference equation, and differential equation.
Modeling and simulation
exponential
decay
dice
Modeling Scenario
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290
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1-019-RocksInTheHead-Modeling Scenario
We describe an experiment with data on the perception of the individual mass of a collection of rocks in comparison to a 100 g brass mass. Students use the logistic differential equation as a reasonable model and estimate parameters.
logistic growth
parameter estimation
experiment
Modeling Scenario
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222
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6-005-InsectColonySurvivalOpt-ModelingScenario
We present a system of nonlinear differential equations to model the control of energy flow into producing workers or reproducers in an insect colony, using a set of given parameters and a number of different energy functions.
optimization
Optimal Control Theory
insect colony
optimal control
natural resources
Pointryagin's Maximum Principle
control variable
Modeling Scenario
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6-001-Epidemic-ModelingScenario
This paper presents real-world data, a problem statement, and discussion of a common approach to modeling that data, including student responses. In particular, we provide time-series data on the number of boys bedridden due to an outbreak of...
data
difference equations
parameter estimation
continuous
epidemic
discrete
boarding school
Modeling Scenario
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206
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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
245
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211
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0
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1-135-FishHarvesting-ModelingScenario
This short activity will walk students through a guided list of questions to help them to understand how the stability of equilibrium changes with changes in a model parameter, in this case the rate of harvesting fish.
population dynamics
fish
stability
bifurcation
harvest
Modeling Scenario
236
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163
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0
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3-031-SpringCost-ModelingScenario
We assume students are familiar with overdamping and underdamping of a spring-mass-dashpot system. Students will apply this knowledge to model the interplay between spring constant, tolerance, and cost.
design
unit cost
spring constant
static equilibrium
spring masss dashpot
Modeling Scenario
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171
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0
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1-109-EmployeeAttrition-ModelingScenario
This scenario models the loss of employees and the employer's attempt to retain them through stock options. It most naturally is solved with a first-order linear decay model with two populations.
population
linear growth
decay
employee
attrition
Modeling Scenario
289
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213
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0
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1-027-StochasticProcesses-ModelingScenario
We build the infinite set of first order differential equations for modeling a stochastic process, the so-called birth and death equations. We will only need to use integrating factor solution strategy or DSolve in Mathematica for success.
Variance
Mean
stochastic
random
operations research
industrial engineering
Poisson process
traffic
Modeling Scenario
351
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195
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0
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6-021-AcornsRodentsSnakes-ModelingScenario
Students are given the opportunity to build a three tropic level model in which snakes eat rodents, rodents eat acorns, and acorns grow and occasionally mast.
predation
forest
snakes
rodents
acorns
trophic level
masting
Modeling Scenario
321
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182
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0
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1-005B-ChemDataCollection-ModelingScenario
A chemistry graduate student is collecting data on a chemical reaction and does a poor job of collecting the data. Indeed, he only collects the data at the start and end of a number of three minute intervals and does not note the times.
kinetics
laboratory
order of reaction
chemical reaction
chemical data
infusion
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