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Modeling Population Growth  


Course Topic(s): Ordinary Differential Equations | Modeling, ODE

A lab exploring the growth of a population using first order differential equations. Explores different factors including scarce resources and harvesting. Includes questions and activities for students for each scenario.

Resource URL: http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/education/calc-init/population/


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Subject classification(s): First Order Ordinary Differential Equations | Ordinary Differential Equations | Differential and Difference Equations

Creator(s): Robert Miner and Frederick J. Wicklin

Contributor(s): Robert Miner and Frederick J. Wicklin

This resource was cataloged by Tina Hartley


Resource copyright: The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota

This review was published on June 29, 2011

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