MATH 485/585 - Spring 2006 - General Information
- Instructor: Dr. Joceline Lega
- Office: Mathematics 511
- Phone: 621-4350
- e-mail: lega@math.arizona.edu
- Location:
- MATH 101, on tuesdays and thursdays
- Time:
- Tuesdays and thursdays, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
- Office Hours:
- Mondays: 4:00 - 5:45 pm;
- Fridays: 9:00 -9:50 am.
- 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