Math 142: Mathematical Modeling

Homework Assignments

Instructor:
Thomas Laurent

Office Location:
MS5352

Office Hours:
Tue 3:30-5:00 PM
Thu 4:30-6:00 PM

• Homework 1 (Due Friday 10/3)
• Homework 2 (Due Friday 10/10)
• Homework 3 (Due Wednesday 10/22). partial solutions of problems 4 and 5
• Homework 4 (Due Friday 10/31)
• Homework 5 (Due Friday 11/7)
• Homework 6 (Due Wednesday 11/19)
• a good problem to practice for the midterm (It is not a hwk problem, it will not be graded)
• Partial solutions of hwk#6 and the practice problem These are only PARTIAL solutions!
• Homework 7 (Due Friday 12/5)
• two good problems to practice for the final (you should REALLY do them!!!)
• Partial solutions of the second practice problem (the one with a traffic jam) These are only PARTIAL solutions!

• Thanksgiving lecture
• Sketch of the characteristics for the "perurbation of a uniform density traffic" problem
• Sketch of the density at different times for the "perturbation of a uniform density traffic" problem
• Sketch of the density at different times for the "perturbation of a uniform density traffic" problem (Less rigourous than the previous one)
• Description in "English" of the evolution of the density for the "perturbation of a uniform density traffic" problem.