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A Closer Look at Some Projects

  • Arterial Pressure: Calculus I or II

    The purpose of this project is to build a model of arterial blood pressure that uses only parameters that a physician would measure and to analyze predictions that are made by the model as input parameters change.

  • AIDS: Mathematics, Calculus I

    The purpose of this project is to build and analyze a sequence of mathematical models that facilitates studying the growth of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.

  • Where is the Ozone Layer?: Chemistry, Calculus II

    This project is intended to investigate the question "Where is the ozone layer?" by examining the change in photon flux (a measure of sunlight intensity) as a function of altitude.

  • Titration: Chemistry, Calculus I

    The purpose of this project is to construct a mathematical model describing the effects of titration, and then to use that model to determine the concentration and the identity of an acid in a solution by fitting the model to real titration data.

  • A Model for Weak Selection of Alleles: Biology (Population Genetics), Calculus II

    The purpose of this project is to develop a model to study the change of relative allele frequency in a gene pool under the conditions of weak selection.

  • Why is there an Ozone Layer?: Chemistry, Calculus II

    This project develops a model based on the Chapman (oxygen-only) Model which uses theoretical chemical equations to build ozone concentration as a function of altitude.

  • Population Genetics II: Biology, Calculus III

    The purpose of this project is to build a model that will predict the relative frequency of alleles (for a 3 allele gene model) in a gene pool given the relative frequency of phenotypes (there can be up to 4) in the population.

  • Edge Detection: Computer Science, Calculus III

    This project looks at the problem of automated edge detection in digitized images. It introduces the process of smoothing by convolution with a linear filter. Users may download image data for this project from our web site.

  • Proposed Project Ideas:
    • Reaction Rates: Chemistry
    • Bacterial Oil Spill Clean-Up: Biology
    • Investigation of Weather: Earth Science
    • Pharmaceuticals: Chemistry
    • Human Speech: Computer Science
    • Teacher Substitution Pool: Mathematics
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