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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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1-001-SepartionOfVariables-TechniqueNarrative
We discuss strategies to solve first order, ordinary differential equations with mathematical models when the variables may be separated.
solutions
strategy
method
applications
Article or Presentation
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2020-Teaching Module-Applying Separation Of Variables
This is one of several Teaching Modules prepare by the Principal Investigates of SIMIODE’s National Science Foundation grant and offered in 2020. The material offered is a complete narrative of how a modeling activity can be offered including...
modules
Ebola
separation of variables
Teaching Modules
Separation
Modeling Scenario
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1-007-AntTunnelBuilding-ModelingScenario
We pose the prospect of modeling just how long an ant takes to build a tunnel. With a bit of guidance students produce a model for the time it takes to build a tunnel of length x into the side of a damp sandy hill.
Spanish
hormiga
túnel
ant
tunnel
Modeling Scenario
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1-138-InnerEarDrugDelivery-ModelingScenario
Students examine local drug delivery to the cochlea. The delivery system is modeled as a liquid mixing problem. Students formulate the differential equation, and solve the equation using separation of variables or integrating factor.
concentration
drug delivery
inner ear
cochlea
hearing loss
Modeling Scenario
387
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250
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0
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1-097-SwimmingPool-ModelingScenario
This project involves the dynamics of chlorine concentration during regular swimming pool maintenance cycles. Students will have the opportunity to use both analytic and numerical methods.
concentration
c
chlorine
numerical error
swimming pool
horine
erreor
Modeling Scenario
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351
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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
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302
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0
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9-010-TravelingWave-ModelingScenario
Students are taken through a traveling wave analysis of a porous medium model. While the starting point is a nonlinear partial differential equation model, after a change of variables, students are led quickly to an ordinary differential equation...
traveling waves
seepage velocity
porous medium
Modeling Scenario
290
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406
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0
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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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301
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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
281
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220
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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
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298
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0
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1-006-Financing-ModelingScenario
We describe two situations, one in which we are saving for a purpose and one in which we are borrowing for a purpose. In the first case we ask for discrete and continuous model of the situation and in the second case we ask that the results of...
finance
savings
loan
interest rate
payment
Modeling Scenario
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486
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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
Article or Presentation
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603
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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
Modeling Scenario
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1045
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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
509
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178
downloads
0
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1-087-ThanosPopulationDynamics-ModelingScenario
In the end of the “Avengers Infinity War,” the villain 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?
logistic
exponential
population
Thanos
Modeling Scenario
377
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329
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0
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1-021-FeralCatControl-ModelingScenario
Students act as professional mathematical consultants and write a report analyzing the client's problem. The client company is a fictional organization which advocates for the use of trap-neuter-return (TNR) as a control method for feral cat...
population growth
control
feral cats
population control
neuter
trap-kill
trap-neuter-return
Modeling Scenario
310
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196
downloads
0
comments
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
368
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221
downloads
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
347
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218
downloads
0
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1-043-CoolingUpAndDown-ModelingScenario
We consider modeling the attempt of an air conditioner to cool a room to a ``constant'' temperature.
temperature
oscillation
Newton's Law of Cooling
cooling
thermostat
air conditioner
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