Sample Course Syllabus
Sample Course Syllabus
Brian Winkel, Director, SIMIODE
This is a sample syllabus for a 15 week, 3 credit hour course using experimentation, modeling, and technology to lead students through a traditional sequence of differential equations topics. This is ONLY a set of suggestions for SIMIODE materials and is by no means complete in its listing. Nor do we suggest using ALL the resources listed. Rather pick and choose and please look up even more resources added over the years by Searching on topics in SIMIODE.
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This syllabus can be tailored for different semester lengths, credit hours, topical foci, flow level. Amount of emphasis on technology, emphasis on areas of application, newer resources, and emphases on theory by selecting alternative learning activities, including many more that are available on www.simiode.org. All materials can be downloaded, modified, and excerpted according to the most generous Creative Commons license.
At every opportunity a modeling activity is used to introduce and support the study of differential equations.
Numbered resources are hyperlinked and available for use now. The numbering system indicates Week(Day) so 3(7) means the 7th day in the 3rd week.
Each entry contains the following information: Week(Day), Topic, Description, Activity, Main Resource, Extra Resources
1(1) First order ODE - Intro to Modeling - collecting data, modeling
1-001-S-MandMDeathAndImmigration 1-002-S-Tossing 1-007-S-AntTunnelBuilding
1-034-FishMixing 1-130-AspirinAbsorption 1-140-LeakyBucket
1(2) First order ODE - Modeling using collected data
1-012-S-Sublimation 1-040-S-OutcomeSavings
1-016-S-DogDrugs 1-084-S-GoingViral
1(3) First order ODE - separation of variables - Kinetics data motivating form
1-011-S-Kinetics 1-045-S-TimeOfDeath 1-019-S-RocksInTheHead
2(4) First order ODE - separation of variables Newton's Law of
1-031-S-CoolIt 3-008-S-HangTime 1-013-S-Sleuthing
1-030-S-IntraocularGasBubbles 1-079-S-HomeHeating
2(5) First order ODE - integrating factor - Discover natural need for integrating factor
1-002-S-Text-Integrating Factor 1-020-S-IceMelt
1-006-FinancingSavingsAndLoans 1-138-S-InnerEarDrugDelivery
2(6) First order ODE - Modeling growth of oil slick - problem with poor data
1-005-S-OilSlick 1-005a-S-ChemDataCollection 1-025-S-MixingItUp
1-026-S-Evaporation 1-020-IceMelt
3(7) Exam 1
3(8) First order ODE - nonlinear - Torricelli's Law and confirming with video
1-015-S-Torricelli 1-058-S-WaterClocks 1-029-S-ConeToCubeFlow
3(9) First order ODE – nonlinear - Logistic equation modeling
1-018-S-LogisticPopModeling 1-009-S-ICUSpread
1-060-S-SalesMarketing 1-017-S-DiseaseSpread
4(10) Second order ODE - homogeneous Modeling a spring mass damper system
3-030-SecondOrderIntro 3-001-S-SpringMassDataAnalysis
3-060-S-DataToDifferentialEquation
4(11) Second order ODE – homogeneous - Modeling falling objects using experimental data
3-013-S-WhiffleBallFall 3-016-S-FallingCoffeeFilters 3-019-S-ShuttlecockFall
4(12) Second order ODE – nonhomogeneous - Modeling mystery RLC circuit
4-023-S-MysteryCircuit 4-060-S-CircuitTuner 1-077-S-RLMSimSeriesCircuit
5(13) Second order ODE - nonhomogeneous Modeling spring mass damper and driver
3-001-S-SpringMassDataAnalysis 3-002-S-ModelsMotivatingSecondOrder
3-030-SecondOrderIntro 3-040-S-FirstPassageTime 3-102-S-SpringMassDamped
3-110-S-MilitarySpringMassApplication
4-055-S-ShatterWineGlass 4-050-S-ResonanceBeats
5(14) Second order ODE - nonhomogeneous Tuned Mass
5-040-S-TunedMassDampers-Part I 5-040-S-TunedMassDampers-Part II
5(15) Second order ODE - nonhomogeneous Projectile Motion
3-044-S-DeepWell 3-042-S-CatapultLaunch 3-045-S-BallBounce
3-035-S-StadiumDesign 3-054-S-Relay 3-020-S-ChordPathTime
6(16) Student Project Sharing and Presentations
Opportunity to briefly present work done on activities.
6(17) Exam 2
6(18) System - Linear homogenous
1-032-S-DigoxinElimination 5-077-S-MandMAttritionWarfare
7(19) System - Linear nonhomogeneous
7(20) System - Linear nonhomogeneous Dialysis - counter or concurrent
5-005-S-Dialysis 5-012-S-LipoproteinMetabolism 5-026-S-Evictions
5-025-S-SaltCompartments 5-030-S-AirshedSulphur
7(21) System - Linear nonhomogeneous - LSD levels in human subjects
1-010-S-LSDAndProblemSolving 1-139-S-PlantsVsHerbivores
8(21) Systems - Linear - Modeling a two spring mass damper system
5-14-S-TwoSpringMass 5-080-S-SpaceFlightRecolonize
8(22) Systems – Linear – Chemical reactions for profitable yield and evictions
5-007-S-ChemOpt-StudentVersion 5-026-S-Evictions
8(23) Systems - Linear - Infinite system of differential equations for stochastic processes
1-027-S-StochasticProcesses 1-108-S-PoissonProcess
9(24) System – Nonlinear - Flu in English Boarding School
6-001-S-Epidemic 6-035-S-Shampoo 6-030-S-SaltTorricelli
9(25) First Order ODE - Bifurcation - a break in the action
9(26) System - Nonlinear
6-005-S-InsectColonySurvivalOpt 6-025-S-WhalesAndKrill
10(27) System – Nonlinear
6-008-S-PursuitModels 6-012-S-RiverCrossing
6-026-S-IsleRoyaleModeling 6-023-S-DroneHeadingHome
10(28) System – Nonlinear
6-020-S-AlgaePopulationSelf-Replenishment 6-040-S-StruggleForExistence
6-015-S-CombatingEbolaEpidemic 6-018-S-ExploringSIRModel
10(29) System - Nonlinear
6-010-S-SocialCampaigns 6-065-S-InternetPlatformUsers
11(3) Exam 3
11(31) Project Selection Class Everything!
Students come to class prepared to discuss their project interest and share.
11(32) Laplace Transforms - Changing venue from time to frequency domain
9-005-S-LaplaceTransformOverview 3-110-T-MilitarySpringMassApplication
12(33) Laplace Transforms - Modeling
7-040-S-TankInterrupt Mixing 9-125-S-BeamModeling
12(34) Laplace Transforms
7-008-S-MachineReplacement-LaplaceTransform
7-020-S-ThermometerInVaryingTempStream
12(35) Laplace Transforms
5-036-S-HalfCarVibration 3-092-S-WirelessPower
13(36) Fourier series Sums of trigonometric functions represent many phenomena
8-002-S-Text-TrigSumRepresentation
13(37) Spectrum - Spectral analysis
13(38) Partial differential equation
9-012-S-GuitarTuning 9-002-S-GroundWaterFlow
14(39) Partial differential equation
3-069-S-HeatInBar 9-020-S-HeatDiffusion
14(40) Partial differential equation - nonhomogeneous
14(41) Exam 4
15(42) Project Development Time
15(43) Class Project Presentations
15(44) Class Project Presentations
15(45) Class Project Presentations
FINAL EXAM