M1131

Dr. R. Rosebrugh

General Info

The course meeting time is 8:30MWF in BARC 021. For official detail see the Department Handbook.

Grades will be assigned with approximately the following weights:

• Labs: 15 %; Midterm Test: 25 %; Final Exam (3hr): 60 %
  

  OR

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

There will be mandatory 1.5 hour labs, to be held in BARC 311 on Thursday. The test will be held in class Wednesday, Feb. 18. The text is Calculus by J. Stewart. The final exam is scheduled for April 18, 9am.

Information about the course can always be found at this URL: http://www.mta.ca/~rrosebru/113198.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