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viii CONTENTS<br />

2.3.1 Finite Di®erence Approximations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89<br />

2.3.2 Rabbits and Foxes: The Sequel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

2.3.3 Glycolytic Oscillator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

2.3.4 Fox Rabies Epidemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

II THE ENTREES 107<br />

3 Linear ODE Models 109<br />

3.1 First-Order Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

3.1.1 How's Your Blood Pressure? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110<br />

3.1.2 Greg Arious Nerd's Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

3.2 Second-Order Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

3.2.1 Daniel Encounters Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

3.2.2 Meet Mr. Laplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

3.2.3 Jennifer's Formidable Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />

3.3 Special Function Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130<br />

3.3.1 Jennifer Introduces a Special Family . . . . . . . . . . . . 131<br />

3.3.2 The Vibrating Bungee Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

3.3.3 Mathieu's Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142<br />

3.3.4 Quantum-Mechanical Tunneling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144<br />

4 Nonlinear ODE Models 149<br />

4.1 First-Order Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

4.1.1 An Irreversible Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150<br />

4.1.2 The Struggle for Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152<br />

4.1.3 The Bad Bird Equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

4.2 Second-Order Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

4.2.1 Patches Gives Chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

4.2.2 Oh What Sounds We Hear! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168<br />

4.2.3 Vectoria Feels the Force and Hits the Bottle . . . . . . . . 175<br />

4.2.4 Golf Is Such an \Uplifting" Experience . . . . . . . . . . 179<br />

4.3 Variational Calculus Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185<br />

4.3.1 Dress Design, the Erehwonese Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185<br />

4.3.2 Queen Dido Wasn't a Dodo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

4.3.3 The Human Fly Plans His Escape Route . . . . . . . . . . 195<br />

4.3.4 This Would Be a Great Amusement Park Ride . . . . . . 201<br />

5 Linear PDE Models. Part 1 207<br />

5.1 Checking Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207<br />

5.1.1 The Palace of the Governors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207<br />

5.1.2 Play It, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211<br />

5.1.3 Three Easy Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215<br />

5.1.4 Complex, Yet Simple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220<br />

5.2 Di®usion and Laplace's Equation Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

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