Module 3 Final Pro ject
Due 3rd November 2008
Your group has been given the reference for a research paper, and a set of
data taken from the paper. Read the paper with sufficient depth to know what
the data is measuring. Use the techniques that you have seen in the lectures to
find three models for the given data of form given to you. Decide which model
is the most appropriate for the data
Your group will be given 10 minutes to present its work to the class during
either November 3’s lecture or Novemeber 5’s lecture. The group will then have
to answer at least two questions from the audience. The presentation should
cover the following (not necessarily in order):
•The physical meaning of the data.
•The three types of model that were fitted to data.
•The methods used to find the values of the parameters of the models.
•Evidence for and against the validity of each model.
•You final decision about which model was most suitable, with your justi-
fications.
At the end of the presentation, the group will save the Mathematica workbook
they used plus any other files they presented, and submit it in Moodle. Each
student will give a grade to each presentation not given by their group.
On Monday, November 3, three groups will be selected, at random, to present
their work. It will be an Honor Code violation for the two remaining groups to
do any further work on their projects.
