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Файл:Guide to Mathematical Modelling.pdf
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- •Preface
- •1.1 Introduction
- •1.2 Models and modelling
- •1.3 The learning process for mathematical modelling
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •2.1 Introduction
- •2.2 Examples
- •2.3 Further examples
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2
- •Aims and objectives
- •3.1 Introduction
- •3.2 Definitions and terminology
- •3.3 Methodology and modelling flow chart
- •3.4 The methodology in practice
- •Background to the problem
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •4.1 Introduction
- •4.2 Listing factors
- •4.3 Making assumptions
- •4.4 Types of behaviour
- •4.5 Translating into mathematics
- •4.6 Choosing mathematical functions
- •Case 1
- •Case 2
- •Case 3
- •4.7 Relative sizes of terms
- •4.8 Units
- •4.9 Dimensions
- •4.10 Dimensional analysis
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •5.1 Introduction
- •5.2 First-order linear difference equations
- •5.3 Tending to a limit
- •5.4 More than one variable
- •5.5 Matrix models
- •5.6 Non-linear models and chaos
- •5.7 Using spreadsheets
- •Aims and objectives
- •6.1 Introduction
- •6.2 First order, one variable
- •6.3 Second order, one variable
- •6.4 Second order, two variables (uncoupled)
- •6.5 Simultaneous coupled differential equations
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •7.1 Introduction
- •7.2 Modelling random variables
- •7.3 Generating random numbers
- •7.4 Simulations
- •7.5 Using simulation models
- •7.6 Packages and simulation languages
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •8.1 Introduction
- •8.2 Data collection
- •8.3 Empirical models
- •8.4 Estimating parameters
- •8.5 Errors and accuracy
- •8.6 Testing models
- •Summary
- •Aims and objectives
- •9.1 Introduction
- •9.2 Driving speeds
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Rewritten problem statement
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •9.3 Tax on cigarette smoking
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •9.4 Shopping trips
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •Interpret the mathematical solution
- •Using the model
- •9.5 Disk pressing
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •Interpret the mathematical solution
- •Further thoughts
- •9.6 Gutter
- •Context and problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •Interpret the solution
- •9.7 Turf
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •9.8 Parachute jump
- •Context and problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •9.9 On the buses
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •9.10 Further battles
- •Discrete deterministic model
- •Discrete stochastic model
- •Comparing the models
- •9.11 Snooker
- •Context
- •Problem statement
- •Formulate a mathematical model
- •Obtain the mathematical solution
- •Interpret the mathematical solution
- •9.12 Further models
- •Mileage
- •Heads or tails
- •Picture hanging
- •Motorway
- •Vehicle-merging delay at a junction
- •Family names
- •Estimating animal populations
- •Simulation of population growth
- •Needle crystals
- •Car parking
- •Overhead projector
- •Sheep farming
- •Aims and objectives
- •10.1 Introduction
- •10.2 Report writing
- •Preliminary
- •Main body
- •Appendices
- •Summary
- •General remarks
- •10.3 A specimen report
- •Contents
- •1 PRELIMINARY SECTIONS
- •1.1 Summary and conclusions
- •1.2 Glossary
- •2 MAIN SECTIONS
- •2.1 Problem statement
- •2.2 Assumptions
- •2.3 Individual testing
- •2.4 Single-stage procedure
- •2.5 Two-stage procedure
- •2.6 Results
- •2.7 Regular section procedures
- •2.8 Conclusions
- •3 APPENDICES
- •3.1 Possible extensions
- •3.2 Mathematical analysis
- •10.4 Presentation
- •Preparation
- •Giving the presentation
- •Bibliography
- •Solutions to Exercises
- •Chapter 2
- •Example 2.2 – Double wiper overlap problem
- •Chapter 4
- •Chapter 5
- •Chapter 6
- •Chapter 8
- •Index
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