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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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489
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0
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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
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0
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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
258
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320
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0
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1-160-HeartDeathRate-ModelingScenario
Students simulate experience from a given data set which represents the heart death rate during the period 2000 - 2010 using several approaches to include exponential decay, difference equation, differential equation, and parameter estimation...
data
heart death rate
Article or Presentation
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582
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2020-TeachingModule-ModelingFallingColumnOfWater
We discuss how to model a falling column of water empirically and analytically from first principles in physics laws.
module
column of water
Torricelli's Law
Torricelli
Teaching Module
Modeling Scenario
445
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580
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0
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1-011-Kinetics-ModelingScenario
We make the connection between chemistry course and differential equations coursework. We do this through modeling kinetics, or rates of chemical reaction. We study zeroth, first, and second order reactions.
kinetics
chemistry
Law of Mass Action
chemical kinetics
order of reaction
chemical reaction
Article or Presentation
253
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613
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0
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2020-TeachingModule-ModelingSpreadOfOilSlick
This is support material and video for teaching a Modeling Scenario using a first order ODE to model the spread of an oilslick with incomplete data.
module
oil slick
Teaching Module
Potential Scenario
190
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42
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0
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2022-Kalman-Improved Approaches Discrete Continuous Logistic Equation
In the precalculus curriculum, logistic growth generally appears in either a discrete or continuous setting. These actually feature distinct versions of logistic growth, and textbooks rarely provide exposure to both.
logistic
continuous
Spreadsheet
Precalculus
discrete
Modeling Scenario
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420
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0
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1-001B-DeathImmigrationMystery-ModelingScenario
We describe a classroom activity in which students use M\&M candies to simulate death and immigration. Each student conducts an experiment with an immigration rate unique to that student - of that student's choice
m&m
Mystery Novels
immigration
experiment
death
Modeling Scenario
257
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227
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0
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1-054-GrowthInFarmland-ModelingScenario
An enriching project developing a model from data with missing temporal information is described. Students fit functions to the data that leads to the creation of a differential equations model, which they then are required to analyze in multiple...
fitting
farm
farmland
Modeling Scenario
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302
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0
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1-026-Evaporation-ModelingScenario
We provide data on evaporation of 91% isopropyl alcohol in six different Petri dishes and one conical funnel and on evaporation of water in one Petri dish. We ask students to develop a mathematical model for the rate of change in the respective...
evaporation
cone
alcohol
Petri dish
Modeling Scenario
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979
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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
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3708
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0
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1-005-OilSlick-ModelingScenario
We describe a modeling activity with difference and differential equations which enlightens students on the model building process and parameter estimation for a linear, first-order, non-homogeneous, ordinary differential equation.
model fitting
spreadsheets
Spanish
derrame de petróleo
datos
expansión
oil slick
Modeling Scenario
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281
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0
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1-145-FastPitch-ModelingScenario
We consider the problem of comparing pitch velocities using measurement methods in different eras of baseball.
Measurement
resistance
air resistance
baseball
pitcher
fast
Modeling Scenario
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162
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0
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1-073-WaterExitBottle-ModelingScenario
We offer an experiment in which data is collected to ascertain a parameter in the differential equation formulation of Torricelli's Law for water flow out of a cylindrical container.
data
water
flow
Torricelli's Law
bottle
Modeling Scenario
267
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387
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0
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1-094-SteepingTea-ModelingScenario
We provide photographs of steeping process for a tea steeped in hot water. Students build a differential equation model for the steeping process and do parameter estimation using the color of our tea as a way to measure relative concentration.
concentration
Surface Area
color
Newton's Law of Cooling
tea
sugar
Modeling Scenario
399
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296
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0
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1-102C-CancerGrowth-ModelingScenario
This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and study treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are presented including exponential, power law, Bertalanffy, logistic, and...
optimization
cancer
logistic
exponential
prediction
tumor
growth
data fitting
power law
Bertanffy
Gompertz
Modeling Scenario
291
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406
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0
comments
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
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220
downloads
0
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1-035-DotseroVolcanoEruption-ModelingScenario
In this scenario, we use Carbon-14 dating of the Dotsero volcano in Colorado as a way of emphasizing this multistage process of modeling.
exponential decay
half-life
decay
Euler's method
carbon dating
decay rate
Carbon-14
Dotsero volcano
volcano
Modeling Scenario
265
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122
downloads
0
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1-084-GoingViral-ModelingScenario
Students employ randomization in order to create a simulation of the spread of a viral disease in a population (the classroom). Students then use qualitative analysis of the expected behavior of the virus to devise a logistic differential equation.
simulation
logistic
random
fitting
partial fractions
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