Project 4 turned out to be more difficult for you than I had realized. This project is an opportunity to go back and consider the issues in that project once again.
Warm-blooded animals use large quantities of energy to maintain body temperature because of heat loss through the body suface. In fact, biologists believe that the primary energy drain on a resting warm-blooded animal is the maintenance of body temparature. The article, "On Being the Right Size," by J. B. S. Haldane, in The World of Mathematics, volume 2, edited by James R. Newman, discusses essential background information for this problem. (Copies of The World of Mathematics are available in the Classroom Computer Lab as well as in the Cardinal Stritch University Library.)
Do project #3 Heart Rate of Mammals, page 119, and construct a model relating blood flow through the heart to body weight. You are to do this project individually, and turn in individual reports.
Follow the usual Project Report Format. You are encouraged to look at some of the winning papers from the Mathematical Modeling Contest which are published in the Fall issue of the UMAP Journal for some general examples of the style for your paper.