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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
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6-002-EulerCromerPendulum-ModelingScenario
This activity introduces students to the concept of numerical stability. While modeling a simple pendulum, students compare performance of the semi-implicit Euler-Cromer method with Euler's method and the higher-order Improved Euleror algorithm.
pendulum
semi-implicit methods
Euler-Cromer
numerical solvers
Modeling Scenario
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6-045-CholeraTranmission-ModelingScenario
During the project described here, the students will learn how to solve and address a practical problem such as cholera transmission using various mathematical tools.
infectious disease
cholera
endemic
disease-free
transmission rate
waterborne pathogen
Modeling Scenario
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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
Technique Narrative
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1-015-DimensionlessVariables-TechniqueNarrative
This material introduces the idea of ``rescaling'' for ordinary differential equations (ODE's) by the use of dimensionless variables. In practice this is an extremely common and useful prelude to the analysis and solution of ODE's.
linearization
dimensional analysis
time scale
scaling
dimensionless variables
spatial scale
Technique Narrative
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1-010-AtmosphericCO2Bifurcation-TechniqueNarrative
Students are introduced to the concept of a bifurcation in a first-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) through a modeling scenario involving atmospheric carbon dioxide whish is taken as a parameter and temperature is a function of time.
carbon dioxide
Surface Atmosphere Exchange
bifurcation
fold bifurcation
saddle node
Modeling Scenario
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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
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1-089-SpreadOfDisease-ModelingScenario
In this project I want to use the algebra based concept “difference quotient” to solve differential equations models with the help of Excel. That means even students with only a College Algebra background, can still enjoy differential equation...
SIR model
Proportion
derivative
difference quotient
Sleeping Beauty
contagious disease
Modeling Scenario
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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
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1-143-PopulationModelVariationsMATLAB-ModelingScenario
Students will walk through a detailed derivation and review of basic population models (exponential and logistic) to create and understand variations of those models.
population dynamics
ecology
logistic growth
bifurcation theory
slope fields
extinction
harvesting
qualitative analysis
stocking
Modeling Scenario
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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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3-087-ThanosPopulationDynamicsInteractingSpecies-ModelingScenario
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?
species interactions
predator-prey
competition
Lotka-Volterra
sensitivity analysis
dynamics
population
Modeling Scenario
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147
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0
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3-130-MatterOfSomeGravity-ModelingScenario
This project introduces the concept of an inverse problem (or parameter estimation), in the context of the simple linearized pendulum ordinary differential equation.
gravity
inverse problem
acceleration
Technique Narrative
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5-005-StiffDifferentialEquations-TechniqueNarrative
This material introduces the topic of ``stiffness'' for a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE's), through a series of examples. Stiffness is a property that a system of ODE's may posses that make it difficult to solve numerically.
Euler's method
explicit methods
implicit methods
stiff
sitffness
stiff differential equation
instability
Modeling Scenario
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126
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0
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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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1-141-MMGameRevisited-ModelingScenario
It is assumed that the probability of an M&M chocolate, when tossed, falling on the M side is 0.5 The goal is to find a probability distribution of the probability q which is Pr(randomly chosen M&M falling M up when tossed).
Probability
stochastic processes
Bayesian methods
probability distribution
Modeling Scenario
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3-004-VanderPol-ModelingScenario
This paper presents an electronic spreadsheet model of the Van der Pol oscillator, a well-known nonlinear second-order ordinary differential equation.
phase plane
Van der Pol oscillator
limit cycle
Runge-Kutta method
Lienard equation
Modeling Scenario
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311
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0
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4-039-FallingDarts-ModelingScenario
we develop, solve, and analyze a second order differential equation model for free fall incorporating air resistance. Students solve the model using two methods -- reduction of order and separation of variables, and method of undetermined...
optimization
resistance
terminal velocity
muzzle velocity
drag coefficient
free fall
air drag
Modeling Scenario
260
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149
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6-011-HumansVsZombies-ModelingScenario
Students analyze the SIR differential equations model in the context of a zombie invasion of a human population. Students analyze a two equation system representing only two populations, humans and zombies and then recovered zombies.
zombies
infection
SIR models
Modeling Scenario
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0
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6-015-CombatingEbolaEpidemic-ModelingScenario
This project offers students a chance to make a policy recommendation based on analysis of a nonlinear system of differential equations (disease model). The scenario is taken from the fall of 2014 when the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
disease
Ebola
Analysis
Policy
decision
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