FTS: Forecasting via Mathematical Modeling
LTG = Limits to Growth
EW = The Everyday Writer
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Week 1
- Intoductions
- Math models: linear growth, exponential growth
- Worksheets from Calculus I
- Writing: Forecasting your future
- LTG preface
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Week 2
- Lab 1: Excel 2007
- EW: "Learning from Common Errors" + exercise
- LTG 1. Overshoot
- LTG 2. The Driving Force: Exponential Growth
- Mathematical writing + exercise
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Week 3
- Nobel Conference preview
- Financial mathematics
- Quiz on linear & exponential growth and financial math
- Lab 2
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Week 4
- Discrete math: sequences, sums, dynamical systems
- LTG 3: The Limits: Sources and Sinks
- Mountains beyond Mountains
- 7:00 p.m. Thur. @ CC: Tracy Kidder
- Nobel Conference preview: Jeff Jeremiason
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Week 5
- Nobel Conference: Heating Up: The Energy Debate
- Writing assignment: Nobel report draft & peer review
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Week 6
- Revise Nobel report.
- Probability and random processes
- Limits to Growth:
pp. 99-127: Oct. 12
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Week 7
- Monday lab
- Friday lab