MATH 485/585 - Spring 2012 - Course Home Page
- Instructor: Robert Indik
- Office: Mathematics 302
- Phone: 621-4599
- e-mail: indik@math.arizona.edu
- Location:
- Starting Tuesday 1/24, Math 501
- Time:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- Office Hours:
- (Starting 2/21/12) Tuesday 9AM and Friday 12PM in math 302, Wednesday at 12 in math east 145 (tutoring room)
- Text:
- UA Class Notes on Mathematical
Modeling by Joceline Lega
- Course contents:
- Topics
- Nature of mathematical modeling
- The modeling process
- Models from Classical 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