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Week Lecture Subject reading
Week1 Lecture1 (1/3) Introduction, Population growth, exponential growth 30-34
Lecture2 (1/5) Logistic growth model 37-39
Lecture3 (1/7) Linear stability 38
Week2 Lecture4 (1/10) Growth-rate and Growth model with time delays 40
Lecture5 (1/12) linear stability(2) 41,42
Lecture6 (1/14) Linear system of ODE 45
Week3 Lecture7 (1/17) Holiday (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Lecture8 (1/19) Phase plane of linear system 1 46-47
Lecture9 (1/21) Phase plane of linear system 2
Week4 Lecture10 (1/24) Midterm1 NA
Lecture11 (1/26) Predator-prey model 48-49
Lecture12 (1/28) Lotka-Volterra 50
Week5 Lecture13 (1/31) Ecological interpretation 51-52
Lecture14 (2/2) Traffic flow model, Derivation of conservation law 58-61
Lecture15 (2/4) Fluxs 63
Week6 Lecture16 (2/7) Conservation of cars, PDE 65
Lecture17 (2/9) Chain rule, Method of Charaterisics, solve PDE
Lecture18 (2/11) case study 1 and 2
Week7 Lecture19 (2/14) case study 3(traffic flow)
Lecture20 (2/16) review
Lecture21 (2/18) 2nd Midterm
Week8 Lecture22 (2/21) Holiday (Presidents' day)
Lecture23 (2/23) summary and transition1
Lecture24 (2/25) Transtion2 68, 71
Week9 Lecture25 (2/28) Transition
Lecture26 (3/2) The Shock, Formation of a discontinuity
Lecture27 (3/4) Speed of the shock 72-73,75-76
Week10 Lecture28 (3/7) Perturbation of uniform traffic
Lecture29 (3/9) Computing the shock curve, Summary 77,78
Lecture30 (12/11) Reviews
Final 3/18 (Friday) 8:00AM-11:00AM at TBA