For this final project of the semester, there is a choice of three different problems. You may work together with a partner or in your regular group, or you may work individually on this last project. If you work with a partner or a group, you may turn in one final group project.
Laws of Heating and Cooling
Study Example 4, page 66, Cooling of a Heated Object. Develop an experiment using CBL tools, collect data, develop a model (or models) for how boiling water cools and ice water warms to room temperature. Present a demonstration of this experiment for the class.
Solve The Case of the Cooling Cadaver, (available as a handout) which requires an application of the Laws of Heating / Cooling which you will have developed, as well as some application of dimensional analysis. Write up your solution in the form of a police detective's report for Inspector Vance McFrito.
Whales and Krill: A Predator-Prey Model
Study Example 3, page 89,Predator-Prey: Owls and Mice, and the handout, UMAP Module 610: Whales and Krill: A Mathematical Model. You may also find it helpful to read portions of Section 11.3, A Predator-Prey Model.
Do the Animal Population Problem, on page 485 of your text. You may do this project for any fish or mammal population for which you can find appropriate data. Write a report for the Department of Natural Resources in the form of a recommendation for a policy on harvesting (or hunting) policy for this particular fish or mammal population.
Epidemics: Spread of a Disease
Study Example 3, page 65, Spread of a Contagious Disease, and two handouts: Spread of a Disease, and UMAP Module 73: Epidemics.
Apply what you learn about the spread of a disease to a disease in the human or animal world for which you can find apppropriate data. Write a report in the form of policy recomendations for the Center for Disease Control, the Department of Natural Resources, or the Department of Homeland Security.
Your project report is to follow the usual project report format.