These are some of links that you ought to find useful in this course. Do share if you find any other sites related by posting the link here.
1. http://www.math.montana.edu/frankw/ccp/modeling/topic.htm Connected Curricullum Project.Web maintained by Frank Wattenberg, Department of Mathematics, Montana State University.
Brief notes but most of the contents are useful for our course.
2. http://www.math.rice.edu/~polking/
A manual for using MATLAB in a course on Ordinary Differential Equations. Describes two special MATLAB routines. dfield8 plots direction fields for single, first order ODEs, and allows the user to plot solution curves. pplane8 plots vector fields for planar autonomous systems. It allows the user to plot solution curves in the phase plane, and it also enables a variety of time plots of the solution. It will also find equilibrium points.
3. Lots of info ranging from discrete to continous models
http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~parwani/c1/node2.html
DATA SITES
1. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/introduction.asp United nation statistic
2.http://www.statistics.gov.my/ Malaysian government statistic department
3. http://www.fao.org/ Food and Agricultural- United nation (go to Malaysia )
4. Malaysian wildlife department- loads of data /info about wildlife. http://www.wildlife.gov.my/index.php/en/publicationsmalaysian wildlife department
5. Statistical sites Worldwide http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm
Types of Models
Basically these are main types of models that we shall explore and discusss.
Discrete- malthusian, logistic, malthusian/logistic modified,other type of linear and non linear models (other similar type)
Continous- malthusian, logistic, malthusian/logistic modified,other types of linear/nonlinear models (population, newtons law of cooling, decay, mixture problems etc)
Systems- competition, predator and prey model, disease model (other similar type)
Spring mass dynamics -2nd order ode model
DO EXPLORE MODELS RELATED TO THESE TOPICS.. .AND OTHERS ...BE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE !
