Month: September 2019

Graphs of sine and cosine (Kate Poirier)

Estimating the height of a building (Suman Ganguli)

Borrowing and Saving (Kate Poirier)

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

1. Arney, Guerra, Hughes, Novak, Patterson, Plucker, Wattenberg: From the Earth to the Moon and Mars and Back with Calculus and Physics
   • Nasa has its own set of activities for different math classes: Exploring Space Through Math
2. Ashwin Satyanarayana’s (Computer Systems Technology) ideas for MAT 1475 applications:
   • Backpropagation algorithm for deep learning/machine learning/neural networks
   • time complexity of algorithms
   • gradient descent
3. Masa Nakamura’s (Mechanical Engineering Technology) undergraduate students’ research projects
4. Joel Greenstein’s Undergraduate Mathematics and its Application Project modules (if you are interested in a particular module that does not appear on this list, please request a scan/photocopy from Kate):
   • Biology
     • The digestive process of sheep
     • Selection in genetics
     • The human cough
     • Population growth and the logistic curve
   •   Chemistry
     • Kinetics of single reactant reactions
     • Radioactive chains: parents and daughters
   • Earth science and oceanography
     • Listening to the earth: controlled source seismology
   • Economics
     • Feldman’s model
     • The distribution of resources
     • Differentiation, curve sketching, and cost functions
   • Engineering
     • Ascent descent
   • Geography
     • Mercator’s world map and the calculus
   • Medicine
     • Tracer methods in permeability
     • Epidemics
     • The human cough
     • Measuring cardiac output
   • Physics
     • The human cough
     • Ascent descent
   • Physiology and psychology
     • A strange result in visual perception
   • American politics
     • The dynamics of political mobilization
       • A model of the mobilization process
       • Deductive consequences and empirical applications of the model
     • Exponential models of legislative turnover
5. Johann Thiel’s MAT 2440/2540 (Discrete Structures and Algorithms I & II) project repository