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Week &
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Assignment(s) Due/Quiz or Test
Scheduled |
Material Covered
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Homework Problems |
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Week 14
W 12/13 |
Final Exam
8:00-10:30 a.m.
Open Book and
Open Computer!
The final exam
is comprehensive with an emphasis on material covered after the midterm
exam. |
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Week 14
F 12/8 |
All "cults"
write-ups due by beginning of class.
Final Project
Written Reports Due |
Review for Final Exam |
Recall the Practice
Homework from Chapter 5: 1 - 7, 10
You should also try working Project 5.9 on Predator-Prey
Variations |
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Week 14
W 12/6 |
Team
Presentations on Final Projects |
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Week 13
M 12/4 |
Team
Presentations on Final Projects |
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Week 13
F 12/1 |
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- Section
5.3.6: The Classical Predator Prey Model |
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Week 13
W 11/29 |
One Paragraph
Abstract of Final Presentation Due by Noon on Thursday 11/30 |
-Section
5.3.5: Phase Plane Analysis |
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Week 12
M 11/27 |
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- 5.2.6:
Systems of First-Order Homogeneous Linear Differential Equations with
Constant Coefficients |
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Week 12
M 11/20 |
Hand-In Homework 5 Due by 5:00 p.m.
You should have decided on your Final Project Team
members by this date. The sooner you clear your
Final Project choice with me
the more time you will have to work on the project. |
- More from
Chapter 5: Systems of Linear ODEs |
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Week 12
F 11/17 |
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- Section
5.2.5: Linear Differential Equations with Constant
Coefficients. |
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Final Project Directions are ready.
Final project presentation dates will be Monday, Dec. 4 and Wednesday, Dec.
6. |
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Week 11
W 11/15 |
Project 5
Reports and Presentations Due |
- Group
Presentations. Order to be decided by the roll of a fair die.
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Week 11
M 11/13 |
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- Start
Chapter 5 - Continuous Models
Section 5.2.1: Separable Equation
Section 5.2.2:
An Example |
Practice
Homework from Chapter 5: 1 - 7, 10
Hand-In Homework 5
Due Monday, November 20 by 5:00 p.m. |
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Week 11
F 11/10 |
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- In-Class
Project Work Day |
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Week 10
W 11/8 |
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- Comment on
Project 4
- In-Class Project Work Day |
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Week 10
M 11/6 |
Hand-In
Homework 4 Due
Download this file onto your
desktop (you may want to save it also) |
- Section 4.12
- An Introduction to Multiple Regression |
Project 5:
Work Project 4.13 on page 236 of the text. This project will also
require a 15 minute power point presentation by each group in addition to
your written report. Team members for
this project are listed here. Project Due Date and Presentation
Date: Wednesday, November 15. |
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Week 10
F 11/3 |
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-
Section 4.10 - The Statistics of Linear Regression |
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Week 9
W 11/1 |
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More on nonlinear regression |
Hand-In Homework 4: Due Monday
11/6 beginning of class. |
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Week 9
M 10/30 |
Download this file onto your desktop (you
may want to save it also) |
Section 4.8: Nonlinear Regression - The Logistic Curve |
Don't forget that I have assigned practice homework from Chapter 4.... |
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Week 9
F 10/27 |
Midterm
Re-Work Due Beginning of Class |
-
In-Class Project Work Day |
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Week 8
W
10/25 |
Bring an Excel
file to class with the data from Table 4.3 (page 170)entered into it. Note:
Just enter the last two digits of the year variable. |
- Sections 4.3, 4.4, 4.6, and 4.7: Understanding R^2
and Fitting other types of curves to data. |
Project 4: Work Projects 4.1 and 4.2 on pages 228 and 229 of your
text. Project Due Date is Wednesday, November 1, Beginning of Class.
Team Members are listed here.
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Week 8
M 10/23 |
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More on Sections 4.1
and 4.2, and 4.3: Covariance, Correlation, Least Squares Regression,
R^2 |
Practice
Homework Problems from Chapter 4 (in Section 4.15): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 |
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Week 8
F 10/20 |
Midterm Exam -
Open Book and Open Computer - Covers Chapters 1-3
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Week 7
W 10/18 |
Project 3 Due
Beginning of Class.
Also be sure
to turn in your team self evaluations. |
- Overview of
Topics for Midterm Exam - Sections 4.1
and 4.2: Covariance, Correlation, and Least Squares Regression
- Sections 4.3, 4.4, and 4.5:
Understanding R^2 |
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Week 7
F 10/14 |
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- In-Class
Work on Project Day |
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Week 7
W 10/11 |
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- Cultural
Points Day: Special Guest Lecturer (Dr. Kyle Siegrist) on
Markov Chains
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Week 6
M 10/9 |
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- In Class
Work Day |
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Week 6
F 10/6 |
Hand-In Homework 3 Due (NOTE: New Due
Date!!) |
- Section 3.8
-3.9: Fundamentals of Markov Chains, Copy Machine Dynamics (see Practice
Homework Problems 6 and 7) |
Project 3:
Work Project 3.6 California II on page 142 of the text. Project Due
Date is Wednesday, October 18. Team
Members are Listed Here.
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Week 6
W 10/4 |
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- More on Eigenvector and Eigen value Analysis (Section
3.6) |
You may want to
download this MATLAB m-file for use in class. |
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Week 5
M 10/2 |
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- Work on Hand-In Homework 3
In Class |
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Week 5
F 9/29 |
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- Sections
3.6 and 3.7:
Eigenvector & Eigenvalue Analysis and a Staged Example |
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Week 5
W 9/27 |
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- Sections
3.4-3.5: Matrix Algebra, Applying Matrices to State Models |
Hand-In Homework 3: Due Friday 10/6
(NOTE: New Due Date!) |
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Week 4
M 9/25 |
Project 2 Due Beginning of Class |
- Sections 3.1-3.3: A Human Population Model, State
Diagrams, and Equations from State Diagrams |
Read Sections
3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 (up to Example 3.1 on page 114).
Practice
Homework Problems (Section 3.13): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 |
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Week 4
F 9/22 |
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- Section 2.3.4: Analysis of Environmental
Stochasticity and the Binomial Distribution (Section 2.3.2) |
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Week 4
W 9/20 |
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- In-Class Work on Project Day |
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Week 3
M 9/18 |
Bring your Stochastic Cranes Excel File to Class |
- Section 2.3.3:
Creating Stochastic Models: Demographic Stochasticity and the Normal
Distribution (Section 2.3.2) |
Project 2: Work Project 2.1. Stochastic Bobcats
(page 93). DUE Date: Monday, 9/25, Beginning of Class.
Team Members are Listed Here. |
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Week 3
F 9/15 |
Hand-In Homework 2 Due |
- Section 2.3.3:
Creating Stochastic Models: Environmental Stochasticity and the Uniform
Distribution (Section 2.3.2) |
- Read Section
2.3 -
Use the Excel File (Stochastic Cranes) we generated in class today to try to
recreate a plot similar to Figure 2.12 on Page 74 of your text. |
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Week 3
W 9/13 |
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- Section 2.2:
Measures of Center, Spread, Frequency Tables, Histograms, and Boxplots. |
- Read
Sections 1.2 and 2.2
- Practice
Homework from Chapter 2: Page 90 #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10(a) |
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Week 2
M 9/11 |
Project 1 Due
Beginning of Class |
- Section 2.1
and parts of Section 2.2: An Introduction to Discrete Stochasticity -
Stochastic Squirrels |
- Use the
Excel file we generated in class
to complete Hand-In Homework 2 by
Wednesday 9/13. Bring your Excel file to class on Wednesday. |
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Week 2
F 9/8 |
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- Section 1.5:
Variable Growth Rates and the Logistic Model |
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Week 2
W 9/6 |
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- Finish Section 1.4:
More Analysis |
- Please be sure to review the project requirements on
the Handy Documents page for information on what is expected in your report
and suggestions for how to organize the report. |
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Week 1
F 9/1 |
Homework 1 Due |
- Start Section 1.4:
Closed-Form Solutions and Mathematical Analysis |
- Read Section
1.4 -
See if you can understand the proof of Theorem 1.2 on page 23
- Practice
Homework: Page 38 (1.8 Exercises): 2, 3
- Project 1: Work Project 1.3. Blood Alcohol Model
starting on page 40 of the text. Team
Members are listed here. DUE Date: Monday, September 11,
2006, beginning of class. |
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Week 1
W 8/30 |
Easy Quiz
1 Due |
-Sections 1.1 - 1.3: Basic Recurrence Relations,
Spreadsheet Simulations, Difference Equations |
Reproduce the graphs in Figures 1.6 and 1.7 for the
hacking chicks modification to the crane population model. |
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Week 1
M 8/28 |
Read Chapter 0
Before Class |
- Review of
Syllabus/Website
- Cover
Chapter 0 (which you should have read before coming to class today) |
- Read
Sections 1.1 - 1.3
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Easy Quiz
1 (Due 8/30)
- Homework 1
(Due 9/1) |