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    1-077-RLMSimSeriesCircuit-ModelingScenario
    In this validation setup, the first order linear ordinary differential equation governing a small signal RL series AC circuit is solved analytically and the results are compared with the data...

    Keywords: MeasurementcircuitvoltagecurrentvalidationSPICERL circuitMultilsim

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    1-081-TumorGrowth-ModelingScenario
    Students will transform, solve, and interpret a tumor growth scenario using non-linear differential equation models. Two population growth models (Gompertz and logistic) are applied to model tumor...

    Keywords: logisticpopulationtumorGompertz

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    1-094-SteepingTea-ModelingScenario
    We provide photographs of steeping process for a tea steeped in hot water. Students build a differential equation model for the steeping process and do parameter estimation using the color of our...

    Keywords: concentrationSurface AreacolorNewton's Law of Coolingteasugar

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    1-098-NeuronDetection-ModelingScenario
    Students study a linear, first order, one-dimensional ordinary differential equation (ODE) and learn how it can help understand basics of neural dynamics. The modeling framework is known in ...

    Keywords: biologyneuroscienceneuron physiologyvoltageintegrate and firethrefholscoincidence detectionRC circuit

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    1-137-SheepGraze-ModelingScenario
    In this activity, students will apply graphical analysis (such as phase lines) to determine the long-term predictions of a differential equation model for pasture grass using two different formulas...

    Keywords: herbivoreplantphase linesbifurcationoverexploitationsheepgraze

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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...

    Keywords: drug resistancedirectedbuoyancyfree fallstatic equilibriumdisplacement

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    3-085-SimplePendulum-ModelingScenario
    Thestudent is asked to derive and solve a differential equation that gives the position (angle

    Keywords: Newton's Second Law of Motionpendulumkinetic energypotential energyConservation of Energytinitial conditionssmall angle approximationTaylor polynomialpercent error

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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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    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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    6-045-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.

    Keywords: infectious diseasecholeraendemicdisease-freetransmission ratewaterborne pathogen

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    1-009-ICUSpread-ModelingScenario
    We offer students the opportunity to model the percentage of voluntary nonprofit hospitals in the United States with Intensive Care Units during the period of 1958-1974.

    Keywords: logisticsum of square errorsIntensive Care Unithospitalspread

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    1-004-MicroorganismImmigration-ModelingScenario
    We present a modeling opportunity for population death with non-constant immigration and suggest the use of both discrete and continuous models with a comparison of results.

    Keywords: continuousimmigrationpopulationdeathdiscrete

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    5-002-RelationshipDynamics-ModelingScenario
    The different possible dynamics of a two-person romantic relationship are modeled -- as a linear two dimensional system of equations -- and analyzed.

    Keywords: love affairRomeo and Juliet

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    4-055-ShatterWineGlass-ModelingScenario
    This module takes students through real life scenarios to examine resonance and its destructive power using differential equation models. What is resonance? How does it happen? Why is it important?

    Keywords: frequencydampingamplituderesonanceoscillationshatteringwine glassbridgesaircraftexternal force

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    3-105-FrequencyResponse-ModelingScenario
    We describe the frequency response to a second order differential equation with a driving function as the maximum steady state solution amplitude and perform some analyses in this regard.

    Keywords: transient dynamicscircuitspring massdriverfrequency responseamplitudesteady state

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    3-020-ChordPathTime-ModelingScenario
    Using Newton's Second Law of motion we can determine the time it takes for a mass to slide along a chord of a vertical circle from high point to any point along the circle. Initially, the result is...

    Keywords: Unit CirclepathfallinggravitychordNetwon's Second Law of Motion

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    1-107-ClothDry-ModelingScenario
    We build a mathematical model for the rate of drying in a wet cloth while hanging in air. A model can be based on underlying physical principles (analytic) or based on observations and reasoned...

    Keywords: dryingclothevaporation

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    7-008-MachineReplacement-ModelingScenario
    Students build an integro-differential equation model using a convolution for machine replacement strategies for two different machine failure models.

    Keywords: Probabilityreplacement numberLaplace transformindustrial engineeringmachineconvolutiondistributiojstep functionderivative definition

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    10-001-TilingHallway-ModelingScenario
    Students investigate difference equations through tiling hallways. They observe patterns in the tiling which lead to a difference equation. Solutions will be calculated by iteration. and the shift...

    Keywords: Geometryiterationtilingrecurrenceshift operatorpatternsclosed formanalytic solution

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    1-002-Tossing-ModelingScenario
    We offer students simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches, to include exponential decay fit, difference equation, and...

    Keywords: Modeling and simulationexponentialdecaydice

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