M1131 - Winter 2000

Dr. R. Rosebrugh
Hillcrest House 200

General Information

The course meeting time is 8:30MWF in PEG 201. For official detail see the Department Web site.

Grades will be assigned with approximately the following weights:

• Labs: 15 %; Midterm Test: 25 %; Final Exam: 60 %
  

  OR

• Labs: 10 %; Midterm Test: 20 %; Final Exam: 70 %
  

There are mandatory 1.5 hour labs, location TBA, on Thursday afternoon beginning January 13. The test will be held in class on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The text is Calculus by J. Stewart (your Math 1111 text). There will be an additional set of notes for the second part of the course.

Information about the course can always be found at this URL: http://www.mta.ca/~rrosebru/113100/113100.html

Maple demo worksheets

first examples

DE examples

some lab solutions

Web links on models

• Population growth

  Several models with graphs

  Some graphs which can be varied

• Predator-Prey

  Some DE's and a simulator

  Contains the Lynx-Hare time series

• Difference Equations

  Logistic difference equation

  Predator-prey interaction with difference equations

  Great Lakes pollution