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2020-TeachingModule-ModelingSpreadOfOilSlick

Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations, Chardon OH USA

Keywords: module oil slick Teaching Module

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Resource Image 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.

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Data on the size of the oilslick is given over intervals of ten minutes. However, the data is incomplete in that we do not know the times of these observations. Hence, there is a frustration as one would look to plot size of oilslick vs. time and one cannot do that with this data. So what to do?

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Author(s): Brian Winkel

SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations, Chardon OH USA

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