AM 260Mathematical Modelling with Ordinary Differential Equations
- Offered
- Fall, Winter
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1988–89
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1976–77 to 1988–89; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Overview of the modelling process. Examples of physical systems leading to ordinary differential equations. Applications to Newton’s laws of motion, mechanical vibrations, and population dynamics. The emphasis is on the physical derivation and interpretation of the model equations.
As printed in the 1987–88 to 1988–89 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: MATH 130B
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1976–77 to 1988–89, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1987–88 to 1988–89 2 calendars
Overview of the modelling process. Examples of physical systems leading to ordinary differential equations. Applications to Newton’s laws of motion, mechanical vibrations, and population dynamics. The emphasis is on the physical derivation and interpretation of the model equations.
Prereq: MATH 130B
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1986–87 1 calendar
Models for population growth, mixtures and diffusion, and motion of a point mass motivate the discussion of linear
and non-linear first and second order
differential equations. Prereq: MATH 130B Antireq: MATH 215, 216
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1976–77 to 1985–86 10 calendars
Titled Mathematical Modelling.
Mathematical models for problems in the physical and biological sciences. Typical problems chosen from ecology, special relativity, spread of epidemics, rumours and tumors. Solutions to problems will be obtained primarily by differential equations.
Prereq: MATH 130B
Offered Fall, Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit