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3-101-SpringMassFirstTry-NoResistance-ModelingScenario
Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with no damping.
frequency
mass
oscillation
undamped
spring constant
spring\
Single Degree of Freedom System
Modeling Scenario
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3-102-SpringMassDamped-ModelingScenario
Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with damping.
frequency
mass
oscillation
stiffness
spring constant
spring\
damped
Single Degree of Freedom System
coefficient
Modeling Scenario
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141
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3-140-TwoSpringsOneMassFixedEnds-ModelingScenario
Students build a model of a two spring, single mass with fixed end configuration and then plot solutions to experience the motion.
mass
undamped
Free Body Diagram
springs
two springs
oscil
lation
spring constant
fixed ends
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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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
245
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141
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0
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3-027-BobbingDropping-ModelingScenario
We present two exercises in which we ask students to model (1) falling object experiencing terminal velocity and (2) bobbing block of wood in liquid. We model the motion using Newton's Second Law of Motion and Archimedes' Principle.
drug resistance
directed
buoyancy
free fall
static equilibrium
displacement
Modeling Scenario
225
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4-050-ResonanceBeats-ModelingScenario
We study what can happen when a pure oscillator (no damper) is driven by a forced vibration function which has the same or close to the same natural frequency as the system it is driving.
Spring 2020 workshop
vibration
tuning
driver
resonance
forced vibration
undamped
beats
naturl frequency
Modeling Scenario
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3-034-CarSuspension-ModelingScenario
We examine the spring-mass-dashpot that is part of a car suspension, how the ride is related to parameter values, and the effect of changing the angle of installation. We model a ``quarter car'', meaning a single wheel.
design
spring-mass-dashpot
spring constant
underdamping
car suspension
suspension tolerance
static equilibrium
Modeling Scenario
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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
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418
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3-090-OneSpringMass-ModelingScenario
We lead students through building a mathematical model for a single mass (bob)-spring system that is hanging vertically. We also lead the students, using data that they collect together with their model to approximate the value of the spring...
undamped
sum of square errors
mass spring
Hooke's Law
oscilation
least-squares approximation
Modeling Scenario
250
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218
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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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208
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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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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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193
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0
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3-055-FloatingBox-ModelingScenario
In this scenario, we lead students through the process of building a mathematical model for a floating rectangular box that is bobbing up and down.
oscillation
Archimedes’ Principle
buoancy
oscillatory motion
Newton's Second Law
Modeling Scenario
252
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512
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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
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393
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5-040-TunedMassDampers-PartII-ModelingScenario
Studentsbuild mathematical models to mitigate dangerous swaying in structures using structural improvements called Tuned Mass Dampers (TMD). We model the motion of the original structure as a spring-mass-dashpot with stiffness replacing spring...
structure
resistance
spring-mass-dashpot
earthquake
vibration
control
damping
tuned mass damper
stiffness
reduction of vibration
Modeling Scenario
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191
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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
Modeling Scenario
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299
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5-015-RunnersSynchronize-ModelingScenario
In this modeling scenario we practice finding and classifying equilibria of a one-variable differential equation. We do this in the context of a phase model which is often a simpler way of studying oscillatory phenomena.
predator
Autonomous equations
oscillation
coupled oscillator
synchrony
runner
prey
Kuramato model
Modeling Scenario
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82
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1-144-HeatCool-ModelingScenario
We offer an opportunity to build a mathematical model using Newton's Law of Cooling for a closed plastic baggie of liquid inside a liquid container.
temperature
Newton's Law of Cooling
cooling
Modeling Scenario
393
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608
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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
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