WEEK A -- MONDAY

Starting early, Bob Panoff kicks off an introduction to mathematical modeling. He then gave a demonstration with eggs. Afterwards, the class experimented with boxes of straws -- what can you discern from the outside of the box?

Playing with straws.

That afternoon, the class separated into groups and did a bungee jumping experiment with eggs. The experiment is as follows:

Given four rubber bands, an egg with netting and a meter stick. Determine how many rubber bands would be needed for the egg the "bungee jump" a distance of 2 meters without breaking.

More Bungee Jumping Eggs

The results of the experiment are tabulated below

The class spent Monday evening in the Appalachian Math Department's new Mac Lab. Here they explored a number of computational models available on the web.