Math 172 
Modeling for the Life Sciences 

Spring 2011 Course Information 

There will be a change in the location of the class. Starting now the class will meet in BA room 003. Exam 3 has been rescheduled and it will take place on Monday April 11. It covers the material on Worksheets 7, 8, 9, 10. The rescheduling is due to the fact that our classroom was occupied by a faculty meeting and was unavailable on Friday.

  Here is the class syllabus .

  Instructions on how to enter discrete dynamical systems on the calculator can be found on Mr. Robert Murphy's web page.

  Here is a copy of Handout 1 from January 12.

  Here is a copy of Worksheet 1. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 1 on Friday, January 21.

  Here is a copy of Handout 2 from January 14.

  Here is a copy of Worksheet 2. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 2 on Friday, January 29.

  Here is a copy of Handout 3 from January 19.

  Here is a copy of Handout 4 from January 21.

  Here is a copy of Handout 5 from January 24.

  Here are the Answers to WS2 .

  Here is a copy of Worksheet 3. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 3 on Friday, February 4.

  Here are the Answers to WS3 .

  Here is a copy of Handout 6 from February 2.

  Here is Handout 7 from February 7.

  Here is Worksheet 4. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 4 on Friday, February 18.

  Here are the Answers to WS4 . I only included answers to the numerical questions. Please refer to your notes for the graphing questions.

  Here is Handout 8 from February 18.We will have a quiz on Friday, February 25 and the question on the quiz will be similar to the example discussed in this handout.

  Here is Worksheet 5. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 5 on Friday, February 25.

  Here is Handout 9 from February 25.

  Here is Worksheet 6.

  Here are the Answers to WS6

  Here is Handout 10 from March 14.

  Here is Worksheet 7. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 7 on Friday March 18.

  Here is Handout 11 from March 16.

  Here are the answers to Worksheet 7 .

  Here is Worksheet 8. Please note that the values of r_1, r_2 should be change to 1 instead of 10 for the caulculations to work. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 8 on Friday March 25.

  Here are the answers to Worksheet 8 .

  Here is Worksheet 9. There will be a quiz based on Worksheet 9 on Friday April 1.

  Here are the answers to Worksheet 9 .

  Here is Worksheet 10.

  Here are the answers to Worksheet 10 .

  Here is Handout 12 from April 5.

  Here is Worksheet 11. There will be a quiz from WS11 on Monday, April 18.

  Here are the answers to Worksheet 11 .

  Here is the first review worksheet . More will follow.

  Here is the second review worksheet . More will follow.

  If you are enrolled in the honors section (section 510) then you are required to complete an extra project that is not required for the rest of the class. Here is the honors project . This is due by the end of the semester. You are welcome to come to my office to ask for help. For problem 1 the final answer should be $P(t)=....$ a formula involving only t and P_0; for problem 2: it is not possible to achieve a final answer in that form; get as far as you can and stop when you can't simplify your answer any more.