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    2011-Kenny_Harwood-Modeling a RLC Circuit Current with Differential Equations
    This paper gives an abbreviated description of the photovaltaic effect (solar power production process) and then a RLC circuit will be modeled that is powered by a photovaltaic panel.

    Keywords: tuningfrequency responseLC circuitRLC

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    2009-Das-EtAl-Bioeconomic harvesting of a pre-predator fishery
    This paper deals with the problem of non-selective harvesting of a prey–predator system by using a reasonable catch-rate function instead of usual catch-per-unit-effort hypothesis.

    Keywords: predator-preyharvestingPontryagin’s maximum principlebioeconomicbionomic equilibriumbiotechnical productivitycatch-rate functionoptimal equilibrium

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    2008-Jai-Li-Differential equations models for interacting wild and transgenic mosquito populations
    We formulate and study continuous-time models, based on systems of ordinary differential equations, for interacting wild and transgenic mosquito populations.

    Keywords: Mosquito borne diseasespopulationsHolling-II-type mating ratestransgenic mosquitoesnonhyperbolic equilibriummosquitoes

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    2005-P_Howard-Modeling with ODE
    In these notes we consider three critical aspects in the theory of ordinary differential equations: developing models of physical phenomena, mathematically well-posed, solving ODE numerically .

    Keywords: Fluid Mechanicscompartmentpopulationsvariational methodsHamiltonian mechanics

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    2003-Yildirim-Mackey-Feedback Regulation in the Lactose Operon
    A mathematical model for the regulation of induction in the lac operon in Escherichia coli is presented.

    Keywords: mRNAlactoselactose operonfeedback regulation

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    2003-Fay-Graham-Coupled spring equations
    Coupled spring equations for modelling the motion of two springs with weights attached, hung in series from the ceiling are described.

    Keywords: massoscillationspring\coupled springsperiodicfporcing

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    2001-Edwards-Buckmire-A differential equation model of North American cinematic box-office dynamics
    A new mathematical model is presented for the box-office dynamics of a motion picture released in North America.

    Keywords: cinemamoviesbox-office

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    2000-Idels-Wang-Harvesting Fisheries Management Strategies With Modified Effort Function
    This study concludes that a control parameter beta (the magnitude of the effect of the fish population size on the fishing effort function E), changes not only the rate at which the population goes...

    Keywords: sustainabilityfishFishingmanagementharvestfisherstrategyoverfishing

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    2019-Ekici_Plyley. Inquiry-Based_Modeling_of_Population_Dynamics_With_Logistic_Differential_and_Difference_Equations
    Inquiry-based learning activities on modeling and controlling the growth of locally relevant species, such as lionfish or sea turtles, are developed by the authors.

    Keywords: population dynamicslogisticInquiry-based modelingIBL

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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...

    Keywords: molecular forensicsBEERspherebubbleNewton' Second LawIdeal Gas Lawdrag forceHadamardStokesmole

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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...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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    1-102C-CancerGrowth-ModelingScenario
    This module guides students in the use of differential equation models to predict cancer growth and study treatment outcomes. Several classical models for cancer growth are presented including...

    Keywords: optimizationcancerlogisticexponentialpredictiontumorgrowthdata fittingpower lawBertanffyGompertz

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    5-076-LanchesterLaws-ModelingScenario
    Lanchester's laws are used to calculate the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and...

    Keywords: Lanchester's lawssensitivity analysisanalysis

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE) for Introductory Statistics
    Students practice and deepen their understanding of bivariate numerical data analysis (correlation, linear regression, etc.) through working with data related to climate change. Adapted from a...

    Keywords: statistics

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    4-036-AltitudeDependentGravity-ModelingScenario
    When projectiles are way above Earth's surface gravity's changes become important when dealing with projectiles at high altitudes. We lay out an approach for such a case which is a second-order...

    Keywords: agravityprojectilelinearizationltitufealtitude

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    5-023-FakingGause-ModelingScenario
    We use a fake or toy data set to permit discovery of the parameters in a two population protozoan model used to study paramecium and yeast competition in the 1930's studies of G. F. Gause in the...

    Keywords: competitionlogisticyeastGauseparameciumpoplulation

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    5-080-SpaceFlightRecolonize-ModelingScenario
    This project is a combination of differential equations, multi-variable calculus, and vector calculus with use of technology to model colonization of a new planet. Students solve a system of...

    Keywords: optimizationsum of square errorsvector calculusLagrange multipliersline integrals

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    6-011-HumansVsZombies-ModelingScenario
    Students analyze the SIR differential equations model in the context of a zombie invasion of a human population. Students analyze a two equation system representing only two populations, humans...

    Keywords: zombiesinfectionSIR models

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    6-015-CombatingEbolaEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    This project offers students a chance to make a policy recommendation based on analysis of a nonlinear system of differential equations (disease model). The scenario is taken from the fall of 2014...

    Keywords: diseaseEbolaAnalysisPolicydecision

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    6-020-AlgaePopulationSelf-Replenishment-ModelingScenario
    This modeling scenario investigates the massive algal blooms that struck Lake Chapala, Mexico, in 1994. A

    Keywords: algaepopulationMexicoqualitativecompartmentlinearizationJacobianlaknondimensionalizationpplane

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