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5-012-LipoproteinModeling-ModelingScenario
Data from a study on the amounts of low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), form of cholesterol, in blood plasma is presented. Students build, validate, and use a compartment model of the kinetic exchange of the LDL between body tissue and blood plasma.
wildlife
low-density-lipoprotein
tracer
compartment model
cholesterol
blood plasma
body tissue
Modeling Scenario
299
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34
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0
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1-018-LogisticPopModel-ModelingScenario
We offer artificial (toy) and historical data on limited growth population situations in the study of protozoa and lead students through several approaches to estimating parameters and determining the validity of the logistic model in these...
data analysis
parameter estimation
logistic
Ciliate protozoa
population
limited growth
paramecia
Gause
Article or Presentation
225
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513
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0
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2020-TeachingModule-ModelingNonlethalInfluenzaEpidemic
We discuss the modeling efforts and tools for success in modeling the spread of nonlethal influenza in an English boarding school
module
epidemic
boarding school
Teaching Module
Modeling Scenario
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3674
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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
421
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529
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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
Modeling Scenario
247
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344
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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
348
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248
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0
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6-040-StruggleForExistence-ModelingScenario
We use historical data from the 1930's in the Soviet Union and model competition between two species of yeast after modeling each species separately and estimate parameters
competition
logistic
carrying capacity
paramecium
Modeling Scenario
315
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480
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0
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3-103-PullBackCars-ModelingScenario
This activity offers analysis of a toy pull-back car: solution of a differential equation from model; data collection and parameter estimation; and adapting the model to predict maximum speed and distance traveled for a new pull-back distance.
modeling
dynamics
hands-on
toy
pull-back car
pullback
Modeling Scenario
609
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708
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3-043-BallisticModeling-SpongeDart-ModelingScenario
The goal of this project is for students to develop, analyze, and compare three different models for the flight of a sponge dart moving under the influences of gravity and air resistance.
projectile motion
air resistance
ballistics
dimensional analysis
Newtonian mechanics
sponge dart
Nerf gun
Nerf dart
Buckingham's Theorem
Modeling Scenario
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299
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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
Modeling Scenario
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395
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0
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3-001-SpringMassDataAnalysis-ModelingScenario
We offer data on position of a mass at end of spring over time where the spring mass configuration has damping due to taped flat index cards at the bottom of the mass. Modeling of a spring mass configuration and estimation of parameters are the core.
data
damping
spring-mass system
Newton's Second Law of Motion
spring constant
Hooke's Law
Modeling Scenario
247
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186
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0
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1-078-MonodGrowthModel-ModelingScenario
Students model growth of bacteria E. coli in a limiting nutrient environment using data from a historical study.
bacteria
nutrient cycles
growth
Monod
consumption
Article or Presentation
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571
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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
Modeling Scenario
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1014
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0
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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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619
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0
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3-065-UpDown-ModelingScenario
We model the height of a launched object which is subject to resistance proportional to velocity during its flight. We ask questions about the motion as well, e.g., highest point or apex and terminal velocity.
terminal velocity
Newton's Second Law of Motion
velocity
motion
apex
Modeling Scenario
339
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429
downloads
1
comments
1-017-DiseaseSpread-ModelingScenario
Using a grid and m&m candies, we simulate the spread of disease. Students conduct the simulation and collect data to estimate parameters (in several ways) in a differential equation model for the spread of the disease.
Modeling Scenario
293
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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
348
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198
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0
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1-005C-OilSlick-ModelingScenario
We describe a modeling activity for Calculus I students in which modeling with difference and differential equations is appropriate.
Problem Solving
oil slick
spread
fitting
line
assumptions
Modeling Scenario
376
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454
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0
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1-047a-CondensationOptimization-ModelingScenario
We seek to optimize a condensation process which is modeled by a simulation using 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.
simulation
data
optimization
energy
condensation
best fit
cost
sum of scquare errors
Modeling Scenario
290
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354
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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
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