Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper W011

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


Modeling with Discrete Dynamical Systems

William P. Fox


Department of Mathematics
Francis Marion University
Florence, SC 29501
USA


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Richard D. West


Department of Mathematics
Francis Marion University
Florence, SC 29501
USA


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ABSTRACT

Models with DDS are illustrated with prescribed drug dosages, population growth, and competitive hunter models with systems of DDS. After each model is built, the long term behavior will be shown numerically and graphically with the TI-83+.

Keyword(s): dynamical systems, modeling, TI-83