Ka-Kit Tung

Topics in Mathematical Modeling

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book has a refreshing style that should appeal to undergraduates. Indeed, the author has produced a textbook that might well achieve his goal of teaching applied mathematics without those being taught noticing!" --Andrew Wathen, University of Oxford "With courses in mathematical modeling getting ever more popular, this book will make a valuable addition to the subject. It deals with topics that should be appealing even to students not majoring in math or science, and the level of mathematical sophistication is carefully increased throughout the book."--Henrik Kalisch, University of Bergen, Norway

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780691116426
• ISBN-10: 0691116423
• Artikelnr.: 22565084

Autorenporträt

K. K. Tung is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington. He is the author or coauthor of more than eighty research papers in atmospheric sciences and applied mathematics, and editor or chief editor of two journals in these fields.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xiii
Chapter 1: Fibonacci Numbers, the Golden Ratio, and Laws of Nature? 1.1
Leonardo Fibonacci 1 1.2 The Golden Ratio 7 1.3 The Golden Rectangle and
Self-Similarity 10 1.4 Phyllotaxis 12 1.5 Pinecones, Sunflowers, and Other
Seed Heads 15 1.6 The Hofmeister Rule 17 1.7 A DynamicalModel 20 1.8
Concluding Remarks 21 1.9 Exercises 22
Chapter 2: Scaling Laws of Life, the Internet, and Social Networks 2.1
Introduction 27 2.2 Law of Quarter Powers 27 2.3 A Model of Branching
Vascular Networks 30 2.4 Predictions of theModel 35 2.5 Complications
andModifications 36 2.6 The Fourth Fractal Dimension of Life 38 2.7 Zipf's
Law of Human Language, of the Size of Cities, and Email 39 2.8
TheWorldWideWeb and the Actor's Network 42 2.9 MathematicalModeling of
Citation Network and theWeb 44 2.10 Exercises 47
Chapter 3: Modeling Change One Step at a Time 3.1 Introduction 54 3.2
Compound Interest and Mortgage Payments 54 Your Bank Account 54 Your
Mortgage Payments,Monthly Interest Compounding 56 Your Mortgage Payments,
Daily Interest Compounding 57 3.3 Some Examples 58 3.4 Compounding
Continuously 58 Continuous Compounding 59 Double My Money: "Rule of 72," or
Is It "Rule of 69"? 60 3.5 Rate of Change 62 Continuous Change 63 3.6
Chaotic Bank Balances 63 3.7 Exercises 65
Chapter 4: Differential Equation Models: Carbon Dating, Age of the
Universe, HIV Modeling 4.1 Introduction 68 4.2 Radiometric Dating 68 4.3
The Age of Uranium in Our Solar System 70 4.4 The Age of the Universe 71
4.5 Carbon Dating 74 4.6 HIV Modeling 77 4.7 Exercises 79
Chapter 5: Modeling in the Physical Sciences, Kepler, Newton, and Calculus
5.1 Introduction 84 5.2 Calculus, Newton, and Leibniz 87 5.3 Vector
Calculus Needed 88 5.4 Rewriting Kepler's Laws Mathematically 90 5.5
Generalizations 93 5.6 Newton and the Elliptical Orbit 95 5.7 Exercises 96
Chapter 6: Nonlinear Population Models: An Introduction to Qualitative
Analysis Using Phase Planes 6.1 Introduction 98 6.2 PopulationModels 98 6.3
Qualitative Analysis 100 6.4 HarvestingModels 101 6.5 Economic
Considerations 103 6.6 Depensation Growth Models 104 6.7 Comments 108 6.8
Exercises 108
Chapter 7: Discrete Time Logistic Map, Periodic and Chaotic Solutions 7.1
Introduction 113 Logistic Growth for Nonoverlapping Generations 114 7.2
DiscreteMap 115 7.3 Nonlinear Solution 117 7.4 Sensitivity to Initial
Conditions 120 7.5 Order Out of Chaos 121 7.6 Chaos Is Not Random 122 7.7
Exercises 122
Chapter 8: Snowball Earth and Global Warming 8.1 Introduction 126 8.2
Simple ClimateModels 128 Incoming Solar Radiation 129 Albedo 130 Outward
Radiation 130 Ice Dynamics 132 Transport 132 TheModel Equation 133 8.3 The
Equilibrium Solutions 134 Ice-Free Globe 135 Ice-Covered Globe 136
Partially Ice-Covered Globe 137 Multiple Equilibria 138 8.4 Stability 139
The Slope-Stability Theorem 140 The Stability of the Ice-Free and
Ice-Covered Globes 141 Stability and Instability of the Partially
Ice-Covered Globe 141 How Does a Snowball Earth End? 143 8.5 Evidence of a
Snowball Earth and Its Fiery End 144 8.6 The GlobalWarming Controversy 146
8.7 A Simple Equation for Climate Perturbation 150 8.8 Solutions 153
Equilibrium GlobalWarming 153 Time-Dependent GlobalWarming 154 Thermal
Inertia of the Atmosphere-Ocean System 155 8.9 Exercises 157
Chapter 9: Interactions: Predator-Prey, Spraying of Pests, Carnivores in
Australia 9.1 Introduction 161 9.2 The Nonlinear System and Its Linear
Stability 162 9.3 Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Model 165 Linear Analysis
167 Nonlinear Analysis 170 9.4 Harvesting of Predator and Prey 172
Indiscriminate Spraying of Insects 173 9.5 The Case of theMissing Large
Mammalian Carnivores 173 9.6 Comment 176 9.7 More Examples of Interactions
178 9.8 Exercises 182
Chapter 10: Marriage and Divorce 10.1 Introduction 191 10.2 Mathematical
Modeling 195 Self-interaction 196 Marital Interactions 197 10.3 Data 198
10.4 An Example of a Validating Couple 199 10.5 Why Avoiding Conflicts Is
an Effective Strategy in Marriage 201 10.6 Terminology 202 10.7 General
Equilibrium Solutions 203 10.8 Conclusion 206 10.9 Assignment 206 10.10
Exercises 210
Chapter 11: Chaos in Deterministic Continuous Systems, Poincar and Lorenz
11.1 Introduction 212 11.2 Henri Poincaré 212 11.3 Edward Lorenz 214 11.4
The Lorenz Equations 216 11.5 Comments on Lorenz Equations as aModel of
Convection 224 11.6 ChaoticWaterwheel 225 11.7 Exercises 226
Chapter 12: El Niño and the Southern Oscillation 12.1 Introduction 229 12.2
Bjerknes' Hypothesis 231 12.3 A SimpleMathematicalModel of El Niño 233 The
Atmosphere 233 Air-Sea Interaction 234 Ocean Temperature Advection 235 12.4
OtherModels of El Niño 239 12.5 Appendix: The Advection Equation 240 12.6
Exercises 241
Chapter 13: Age of the Earth: Lord Kelvin's Model 13.1 Introduction 243
13.2 The Heat Conduction Problem 245 13.3 Numbers 250 13.4 Exercises 251
Chapter 14: Collapsing Bridges: Broughton and Tacoma Narrows 14.1
Introduction 254 14.2 Marching Soldiers on a Bridge: A SimpleModel 254
Resonance 259 A Different Forcing Function 260 14.3 Tacoma Narrows Bridge
261 Assignment 262 14.4 Exercises 262
APPENDIX A: Differential Equations and Their Solutions A.1 First- and
Second-Order Equations 267 A.2 Nonhomogeneous Ordinary Differential
Equations 273 First-Order Equations 273 Second-Order Equations 275 A.3
Summary of ODE Solutions 277 A.4 Exercises 278 A.5 Solutions to Exercises
279
APPENDIX B: MATLAB Codes B.1 MATLAB Codes for Lorenz Equations 282 B.2
MATLAB Codes for Solving Vallis's Equations 284
Bibliography 287 Index 293