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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
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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
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    6-005-InsectColonySurvivalOpt-ModelingScenario
    We present a system of nonlinear differential equations to model the control of energy flow into producing workers or reproducers in an insect colony, using a set of given parameters and a number of different energy functions.
    optimization Optimal Control Theory insect colony optimal control natural resources Pointryagin's Maximum Principle control variable
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    1-125-DiceyPopulation-ModelingScenario
    We offer students an opportunity to generate data for their team on a death and immigration model using 12 and 20 sided dice and then pass on the data to another student team for analysis with a model they built. The key is to recover the...
    simulation immigration death dice
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    1-025-MixingItUp-ModelingScenario
    Students build three different models for levels of salt in a tank of water and at each stage the level of complexity increases with attention to nuances necessary for success.
    compartment salt tank mixing
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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
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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
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    6-070-BeerBubbles-ModelingScenario
    The goal of this project is to set up and numerically solve a first-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) system of three equations in three unknowns that models beer bubbles that form at the bottom of a glass and rise to the top.
    molecular forensics BEER sphere bubble Newton' Second Law Ideal Gas Law drag force Hadamard Stokes mole
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    6-003-SchoolFluEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    We offer a model of the spread of flu in a school dormitory and are asked to find when the flu levels reach their peak and explain long term behavior of the spread of the flu.
    infection epidemic SIR model flu peak school children
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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they are to build a mathematical model.
    SIR models epidemic susceptible infective removed Eyam English village
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    9-125-BeamModeling-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario examines the deflection of a cantilever beam under two different distributed loads. Students will have the opportunity to conduct experiments with their own cantilever beam or use data provided to build a model.
    Fluid Mechanics beam cantilever impulse Laplace transform boundary condition fourth order
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    1-001-MM-DeathAndImmigration-ModelingScenario
    We conduct a simulation of death and immigration, using a small set of "individuals", m&m candies or any two sided object (coin, chips), in which upon tossing a set of individuals we cause some to die and others then to immigrate. Modeling ensues!
    simulation immigration death Spanish dats Winkel Brian Winkel
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    3-100-Ripcord-Toys-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario examines the motion of a ripcord-powered toy with the goal of using real data to estimate parameters in a first-order model of the velocity of the toy. Students may conduct experiments or use videos to collect data.
    data physics dynamics data collection rolling slipping ripcord toy
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    1-038-Ebola-ModelingScenario
    Students will use data published by the World Health Organization to model the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. We begin with a simple exponential growth model and move through the modeling process to the logistic growth model.
    population dynamics data analysis exponential growth Ebola logistic epidemic
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    1-128-RocketFlight-ModelingScenario
    We offer an opportunity to build a mathematical model using Newton's Second Law of Motion and a Free Body Diagram to analyze the forces acting on the rocket of changing mass in its upward flight under power and then without power followed by its...
    resistance Flight Rocketry mass Newton's Second Law of Motion thrust Free Body Diagram apex rocket