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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
252
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511
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0
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1-091-InvestigatingSlopeFields-ModelingScenario
Students will gain experience writing differential equations to model various population scenarios, they will create slope fields to view the solution curves using software, and they will discuss the behavior of the solution curves.
slope fields
population
Modeling Scenario
300
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133
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0
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1-118-SolowEconomicGrowth-ModelingScenario
Students construct and analyze the celebrated Solow-Swan model of economic growth theory. The project is divided into three sequential parts to teach students to understand, develop, and analyze a simple nonlinear model of economic dynamics.
optimization
economics
steady state
growth
Solow-Swan model
capital
production
labor
Golden Rule of Economic Growth
Modeling Scenario
308
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287
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0
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1-190-IntroClass-ModelingScenario
Students go through development of ideas in mathematical modeling with differential equations. They encounter fundamental ideas of unlimited population growth, limited population growth and a predator prey system.
population dynamics
predator-prey
logistic
exponential
graphical interpretations
qualitative analysis
Modeling Scenario
394
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272
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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
583
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323
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0
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6-020-AlgaePopulationSelf-Replenishment-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario investigates the massive algal blooms that struck Lake Chapala, Mexico, in 1994. A
algae
population
Mexico
qualitative
compartment
linearization
Jacobian
lak
nondimensionalization
pplane
Technique Narrative
377
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208
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0
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1-009-Bifurcation-TechniqueNarrative
We lead students to investigate first-order differential equations that contain unknown parameters. Students discover what happens to the qualitative behavior of solutions to these equations as these parameters vary.
bifurcation
qualitative behavior
bifurcation diagram
Modeling Scenario
352
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1172
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6-025-WhalesAndKrill-ModelingScenario
Students will use Excel to observe qualitative behavior in a simulation of a predator-prey model, with blue whales and krill as the predator and prey populations, respectively.
krill
whale
predatpr-prey
Modeling Scenario
392
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594
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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
Technique Narrative
540
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312
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0
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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
314
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472
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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
Modeling Scenario
242
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101
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0
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1-067-ModelingWithSigmoidCurves-ModelingScenario
The assignment considers two well-known models of population growth, Verhulst-Pearl and Gompertz models, for which qualitative and quantitative analyses are provided. The graphs of the corresponding functions have a sigmoidal or S-shape.
logistic
Gompertz
sigmoid
Verhulst-Pearl
Modeling Scenario
310
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137
downloads
0
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1-104-InfectionRisk-ModelingScenario
This project is designed to examine differences between the exponential and logistic growth models in biology and how to apply these models in solving epidemic questions.
infection
logistic
exponential
covid
carrying capacity
Modeling Scenario
214
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208
downloads
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
274
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133
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0
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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
255
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325
downloads
0
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3-072-EarthQuakePartI-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario considers a one-story building as a simple structure; the roof is modeled as a single point mass. Movement of the roof can be modeled similar to a mass-spring system.
earthquake
vibration
amplitude
resonance
undamped
spring-mass system
Modeling Scenario
277
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291
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0
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6-006-ZombieGameHvZ-ModelingScenario
Invented in 2005, Humans vs. Zombies, or HvZ, is a game of tag, predominantly played at US college campuses. In this activity, students use systems of non-linear differential equations to model the HvZ game.
zombies
SIR models
Game
Modeling Scenario
393
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610
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0
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6-022-CannibalismPredatorPrey-ModelingScenario
The Lotka-Volterra model tells us that the prey and predator exhibit a shifted cyclic behavior over time. In this module, we look at modifying this prey-predator model to consider the case when there is cannibalism in the predator species.
stability
predator-prey
equilibria
oscillations
cannibalism
phase planes
spiral sinks
Modeling Scenario
340
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448
downloads
0
comments
1-028-SouthernSweetIcedTea-ModelingScenario
We offer raw data collected from a webcam and a thermometer for evaluating the strength of steeping tea. We ask students to build a mathematical model using the data to predict how long the tea should steep before essentially reaching saturation.
data
Newton's Law of Cooling
tea
sweet tea
Modeling Scenario
361
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237
downloads
0
comments
1-020-IceMelt-ModelingScenario
We offer up the claim of a store catalog that its ice ball mold allows users to ``. . . make ice balls that outlast cubes and won't water drinks down.'' We ask students to build a mathematical model to defend or contradict this claim.
sphere
ice
melt
cube
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