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1-136-MarriageAge-ModelingScenario
Students will build and analyze a model of the fraction of people who are married (for the first time) by a certain age. Students are asked to set up and solve these differential equations. They are then expected to analyze the behavior of these...
messages
marriage
using social sciences in forecasting
directed
Potential Scenario
190
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2017-GR_Gustafson-Differential Equations Course Materials
There are many applications from compartment and cascade analysis, recycling brine tank, home heating with multiple rooms, chemostat, microbes, heartbeats, lidocaine, nutrient flow in an aquarium, biomass transfer, pesticides, forecasting prices,...
chemostat
microbes
biomass
forecasting
transfer
compartment
pesticides
earthquake
tank
heating
lidocaine
brine
heartbeats
nutrient flow
aquarium
electric networks
circuits
logging
building
cascade
Modeling Scenario
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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
General Resource
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100
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Instructor Solutions Second Edition SIMIODE Textbook HTML Version
This is material we make available for instructors teaching a modeling-first approach to differential equations when using the Second Edition of SIMIODE Textbook, Differential Equations: A Toolbox for Modeling the Real World in HTML Version.
textbook
html
SIMIODE textbook
Second Edition
Modeling Scenario
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391
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1-037-CommonColdSpread-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides students to simulate and investigate the spread of the common cold in a residence hall. An example floor plan is given, but the reader is encouraged to use a more relevant example.
disease
common cold
residence hall
Modeling Scenario
282
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368
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1-165-FlushToilet-ModelingScenario
This activity analyzes the spread of a technological innovation using the Bass Model from Economics. The equation is a first-order, two-parameter separable equation and the solution has a characteristic S-shaped curve or sigmoid curve.
julia
Diffusion
innovation
rate of innovation
Bass model
Solver
Modeling Scenario
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160
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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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206
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0
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1-100-EngineeringDemographics-ModelingScenario
Students show how models can be used to examine social issues. The students examine three different models and use numerical methods to apply each model to demographic data for the percentage of engineering degrees awarded to women in the United...
logistic
population
Improved Euler Method
Gompertz
demographics
women
autonomous
Modeling Scenario
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1-023-RumorSpread-ModelingScenario
We use a newspaper report on the spread of a rumor based on shares of articles on the Internet over a 5 day period to demonstrate the value of modeling with the logistic differential equation.
Internet
logistic
spread
rumors
Modeling Scenario
339
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154
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1-001d-HotelPopulationDecay-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. Before you run the simulation in MATLAB, answer some questions.
simulation
logistic
exponential decay
fitting
Modeling Scenario
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140
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1-111-SpreadOfInformation-ModelingScenario
Students perform experiments to model spread of information within a population. Students collect data, determine essential components and parameters and build a mathematical model culminating with a separable linear first order differential...
data
logistic
racism
prejudice
misinformation
memes
spread
disinformation
information
lies
Google Trends
coins
pennies
Modeling Scenario
379
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258
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1-138-InnerEarDrugDelivery-ModelingScenario
Students examine local drug delivery to the cochlea. The delivery system is modeled as a liquid mixing problem. Students formulate the differential equation, and solve the equation using separation of variables or integrating factor.
concentration
drug delivery
inner ear
cochlea
hearing loss
Modeling Scenario
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190
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0
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1-013-SleuthingWithDifferentialEquations-ModelingScenario
We present several situations in which differential equation models serve to aid in sleuthing and general investigations.
projectile motion
acceleration
Newton's Law of Cooling
speeding
Modeling Scenario
294
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413
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0
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1-065-AlgalBlooms-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario investigates the massive algal blooms that struck Lake Chapala, Mexico, starting in 1994.
direction fields
tool:dfield
algae
harmful algae blooms
population
compartment
Lake Chapala
Potential Scenario
134
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66
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0
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2010-Del-Ciello-EtAl-Modeling Disease
We model the transmission of a disease through a population. Such modeling is very important to the study of epidemiology and the practice of medicine.
disease
spread
carries
symptomatic
asymptomatic
Modeling Scenario
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367
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1-102-CancerTumor-ModelingScenario
This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and optimize treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are studied, including exponential, power law, Bertalanffy, logistic, and...
optimization
logistic
prediction
data fitting
power law
Gompertz
cancer growth
eponential
Bertalanaffy
Modeling Scenario
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925
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0
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1-030-EyeModel-ModelingScenario
We offer a mathematical modeling experience using differential equations to model the volume of an intraocular gas bubble used by ophthalmologists to aid the healing of a surgically repaired region of the retina.
retinal surgery
Akaike Information Criterion
Spanish
sum of square errors
surgery
retiona
ophthalmology
eye
intraocular gas bubble
Modeling Scenario
205
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223
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0
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6-029-TumorGrowth-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides a student familiar with single ordinary differential equation (ODE) models towards the development of a more complex system of two ODEs for describing the evolution of tumor growth over time.
Pop_Growth Pilot
logistic
comparment
tumor
synthetic data
sum of squares error
Modeling Scenario
232
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82
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0
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1-131-CaffeineElimination-ModelingScenario
We model the concentration of caffeine eliminated from the human body at a rate proportional to the concentration. This is a ``first-order reaction'' in the language of pharmacokinetics -- the study of how drugs move in the body.
caffeine
elimination
pharmacokinetics
drug
Modeling Scenario
343
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212
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0
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1-045-TimeOfDeath-ModelingScenario
Students are asked to determine the time of death given both environmental temperature situations and two observations of body temperature under several different circumstances.
body mass
temperature
death
Newton's Law of Cooling
body temperature
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