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Section 1.1: Some Basic Mathematical Models Direction Fields

This document provides an overview and summary of Section 1.1 from a textbook on differential equations. The section introduces two basic mathematical models: vertical motion of a falling object and population growth with harvesting. It also defines the standard form of a first-order differential equation and discusses direction fields and solutions. The document concludes by listing exercises from the section for students to complete.

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Section 1.1: Some Basic Mathematical Models Direction Fields

This document provides an overview and summary of Section 1.1 from a textbook on differential equations. The section introduces two basic mathematical models: vertical motion of a falling object and population growth with harvesting. It also defines the standard form of a first-order differential equation and discusses direction fields and solutions. The document concludes by listing exercises from the section for students to complete.

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Math 212: Section 1.

Some Basic Mathematical Models; Direction Fields

Section 1.1: Some Basic Mathematical Models; Direction Fields


These notes reect material from our text, Elementary Dierential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, 8/e, by William E. Boyce and Richard C. DiPrima, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005. Mathematical Models We begin our study of dierential equations by considering two important mathematical models: Vertical motion of an object falling through the atmosphere, m Population growth with harvesting, dp = rp k dt Concepts Standard form of a rst-order dierential equation, dy = f (t, y ). dt Slope eld for and solutions of a rst-order dierential equation. dv = mg v dt

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Fig. Slope eld and solutions for m dv dt = m g v . Exercises We will attempt to solve some of the following exercises as a community project in class today. Finish these solutions as homework exercises, write them up carefully and clearly, and hand them in with your next homework assignments. Exercises for Section 1.1, pp. 710: 1, 7, 11, 23 (Newtons Law of Cooling), 24 (concentration of a drug in the bloodstream)

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