Math 460: Mathematical Modeling --- Spring 2014

To contact the instructor: j.rhodes@alaska.edu

Course syllabus: M460syl.pdf

Textbook errata: errata.pdf   (Please let me know if you find additional errors.) 

Archive of all MATLAB m-files for text: Math460mfiles.zip

Individual m-files can be downloaded by entering a URL of the form:
      http://www.dms.uaf.edu/~jrhodes/Math460mfiles/xxx.xxx
where 'xxx.xxx' is replaced with a file name, such as 'onepop.m' or 'seqdata.mat'.

Homework Assignments:

The dates below are when problems were assigned. Unless otherwise noted, problems are always due the following Wednesday.

Problems are from Allman & Rhodes, unless otherwise stated.

• 1/17: 1.1.1 -- 10 (due 1.29)
• 1/20: AK CIVIL RIGHTS DAY, no class
• 1/22: 1.1.11-15, 1.2.1-3
• 1/24: class cancelled for weather
• 1/27: 1.2.4-10
• 1/29: none
• 1/31:1.3.1-5,6ab,7ab,8-11
• 2/3: 1.4.1-3; Project (due 2/14) p. 30, #1
• 2/5: 2.1.1-5 (do these only if you need to); 2.1.6-9 (these are required)
• Starting 2/7, class meetings will be in 104 Chapman, not 106.
• 2/7: 2.2.1,2 (3,4 optional) 5,6,7,8
• 2/10: 2.2.12
• 2/12: none
• 2/14: 2.3.1-10
• 2/17: 2.4.1(A,B only), 2 (A,B only), 3
• 2/19: 3.1.1-3,6-9
• 2/21: 3.2.1-4,7
• 2/24: 3.3.1-3,5,6,8
• 2/26: 3.4.1-5
• 2/28: none
• 3/3: none
• 3/5: MIDTERM EXAM (rescheduled)
• 3/7: 4.2.1-5,7,8,12; 4.3.1-5
• 3/10: 4.3.6-8,11-13; 4.4.1,2
• 3/12: 4.4.3-6,8-10; Project (due 4/2) p. 110, #2
• 3/14: 4.4.11-13,18,20,21
• SPRING BREAK
• 3/24: 4.5.1-3,5,7,8,12,14
• 3/26: 5.1.1-7
• 3/28: 5.2.1-7,9,11-13 (delay problems on FM until 3/31)
• 3/31: no new problems
• 4/2: 5.3.1-7
• 4/4: 5.4.1-7,10,11
• 4/7: no new problems
• 4/9: MIDTERM EXAM
• 4/11: 6.1.1-5,7,10-12,14-17; Project (due 4/23) p. 212, #1
• 4/14: 6.2.1,2,4-7,9-11
• 4/16: 6.2.12,14-16,20; 6.3.1,3,5,7-9
• 4/18: 6.3.11-15,17-22
• 4/21: no new problems
• 4/23: 7.1.1-7
• 4/25: SPRING FEST
• 4/28: 7.2.1-7,9,10
• 4/30: 7.3.4-6,8-11,13-15 (due 5/4)
• 5/2: 7.4.2-4
• 5/4: Last day of class