Projects

MATH 2413 Honors Ordinary Differential Equations

The following are projects for students in MATH 2413 along with a sampling of the progress that has been made.
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Written reports are available in the ACE Lab.

1. Spinning cylinder of liquid   *Fall 2002

*2. Torricelli's Law
This project on draining containers of liquid was designed by students Steven Lansel and Brandon Luders Fall 2002 and has been adapted for a classroom demonstration.

3. Hanging Slinky   *Fall 2002

4. Magnetic Train Oscillator   Fall 2002

5. Water Bottle Rocket
Project designed by students Kevin Guthrie, Laurence Lindsey, Kathryn Sisson, and Mashruba Tasneem, Fall 2002

6. Lorenz Water Wheel   Fall 2002

7. Mass-spring system

8. Pressure in Soap Bubble, *Fall 2001-Summer 2002

9. Lab 2.4 from text. Coupled Rubber Band and Spring Oscillator   Fall 2002

10. Mass-spring system

11. Runge-Kutta Methods

*12. Plateau's Rotating Drops

13. Lab 1.1 (Logistic Model with Harvesting)

14. Lab 1.4 (Growing Mold)

15. Lab 1.3 (US Population Growth)

16. Catenoids

17. Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Section 4.5 of text)

18. Lab 3.2 or 4.1 RLC Circuits

Other suggested projects (that have not been tried by students in 2413...yet):

1. Rayleigh-Benard Convextion