Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Tomas Ekholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

rate on interest. How much money do you get at the end of the year if you withdraw and deposit an amount of money, including its interest, more and more often during a year? Knowing this leads to a definition of the number e. 3. Local and global maximum: Marie waters her pumpkin with x liters a day. The pumpkin’s growth is dependent on x (no water or infinite water will kill the pumpkin). There should be an optimal value. How can we formulate this optimal value? 4. Limits: A car starts from zero speed at time zero and accelerates at time 20 seconds to 50 kilometers/hour and drives thereafter at a constant speed. What happens to the average speed as time goes on? Does it have a limit? Will the average ever be