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Laboratory section for ESR221

Instructors:

Brian Fletcher
Whitney Temple

Section 1 - Wed 10:15 to 12:35
Section 2 - Wed 12:45 to 15:05
Section 4 - Thu 16:00 to 18:30
  1. Excel graphing
  2. Growth models
  3. Stock control models
  4. Water flow
  5. Dilution
  6. Predator-prey models
  7. Heat-loss
  8. Watershed model
  9. Non-conservative pollutant

note: the numbering on these assignments is a little mixed up

Description of group modeling project assignment

 

Number -
Date		 Lab measurements Modeling Practice Assignments due
1- Jan 07 & 08 Introduction, plotting functions in Excel  
2- Jan 14 & 15   growth models for positive and negative feedback, logistic model Excel problem set
3- Jan 21 & 22   stock control models: constant, linear, Michaelis Menten  
4- Jan 28 & 29 water flow driven by hydrostatic pressure water flow - create a model for two reservoir system  
5- Feb 04 & 05 dilutions - standard curve dilutions - change with time
dilutions -co-flow model for dilution of a pollutant
 water flow- two reservoir model
6- Feb 11 & 12

heat loss - diffusion
group project - select data

 predator-prey model, pulsing dilutions - report
7- Feb 18 & 19 heat loss - modification of experiment heat loss - create a model population models summary
8- Feb 25 & 26 group project watershed model: analysis of rain, stream flow, ground water flow
nonconservative pollutant - analysis of a pollutant that degrades in a stream
 heat loss - report
9- Mar 04 & 05 work on group project  
10- Mar 11 & 12 group project presentations