MATH 485/585 - Spring 2007 - General Information
- Instructor: Robert Indik
- Office: Mathematics East 249a
- Phone: 621-4499
- e-mail: indik@math.arizona.edu
- Location:
- MATH 101
- Time:
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Tuesdays and Thursdays,
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- Office Hours:
- Monday 10-11 and Friday 3-4 in Math east 249a,
- Wednesday 11-12 upper division tutoring in Math 220.
- Text:
- UA Class Notes on Mathematical
Modeling
- Course contents:
- Topics
- Nature of mathematical modeling
- The modeling process
- Models from Clasical Mechanics
- Population Dynamics and Epidemiology
- Spatial effects: Diffusion, Chemical Reactions,
Pattern Formation
- Techniques
- Dimensional analysis
- Phase plane analysis
- Solutions of systems of differential equations
- Simple solutions of partial differential equations