Wednesday, September 5, 2007

lecture 9.5.2007

Nothing, is not an acceptable answer. But today was more of an introduction to the course and material wasn't really discussed.

Scratch that thought; the two main concepts are functions and differential equations. I have had experience with functions, so i suppose differential equations would be the most difficult out of the two.

In class today when were brain-storming examples of how differential equations cab be used to answer questions, I think with the time restraint it was hard for everyone to come up with different variables or factors that alter and outcome of a situation.

In my small group we thought of obesity and the variables we could come up with were diet, exercise, genetics, culture, mother's cooking talents, and location. It sort of served as an ice breaker to be able to get out of our seats and talk about it.

1 comment:

Snowflake said...

Lucky,

Thanks for the great post. To clarify, though... you are supposed to answer "What's the most difficult part of the material we'll discuss in the next class." So in other words, you should have posted on what was difficult about the reading for today, Sections 1.1 and 1.8. This is no problem for this first entry. The first couple of blog entries are just for practice. But do let me know if this still doesn't make sense, or if there's anything I can do to clarify for you.

Thanks!

--Chad