Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S110

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Electric Circuits and Differential Equations: Audio Data Collection

Allan Struthers


Michigan Technological University

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ABSTRACT

Standard computer audio hardware and software provides an inexpensive signal generator and recorder to collect data from real circuits. This paper is intended to demonstrate that this can be inexpensive and straightforward. Uses of the collected data in calculus and differential equations courses is presented.

Keyword(s): differential equations, applications