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• From Friday, September 3, 2004: Mathematica Notebook illustrating a discrete model and a continuous model of decay with replenishment
• From Monday, September 13, 2004:  Mathematica Notebook illustrating behavior of Mathematica when it can't find a solution; use of "For" loop; the competing species model.
• From Friday, October 1, 2004: Mathematica Notebook doing least squares, minimax, and L¹ fits on some contrived data.
• From Monday, October 4, 2004: Mathematica Notebook illustrating finding a local minimum of a function
• From Wednesday, October 6, 2004: Mathematica Notebook illustrating polynomial interpolation of Runge's function and interpolating or fitting of the Chesapeake Bay bluefish data from Chapter 4 of the Text
• From Monday, October 11, 2004: Mathematica Notebook with additional experimentation for fitting the Chesapeake Bay bluefish data (including looking at condition numbers and scaling the data)
• From Friday, October 15, 2004: An example of using spline interpolation
• From Monday, October 25, 2004:
• Computations with the "Carpenter" example from section 7.1 of the Giordano, Weir and Fox text (third edition).
• James Hess' solution in Mathematica for the problems where we were to do linear least squares, minimax, and minimum sum of deviations (l₁) fits.
• From Wednesday, October 27, 2004: Difference table computations
• From Friday, November 5, 2004: Mathematica notebook comparing an "exact" and an approximate linear dynamic  model for the oscillating pendulum.
• From Monday, November 8, 2004: An enhancement of Friday's notebook, containing variables for controlling ranges on the graphs and non-zero forcing terms.  We will use this notebook to experiment with resonance phenomena, etc.
• From Wednesday, November 10, 2004: An enhancement of Monday's notebook, set up for a study of resonance and approximate resonance.