Lead in the
Body*
David Smith, Duke University
with the assistance of
Jer-Chin Chuang, Furman University
John Michel, Marietta College
Purposes: To develop
and explore a compartment model for the amount of lead in a human body
and to study a three-dimensional driven linear system.
Prerequisite: The module
on Trajectories of Linear Equations.
* Based on a presentation
in Differential Equations: A Modeling Approach, by R. Borrelli and C.
Coleman, Prentice-Hall, 1987, in turn based on articles by Rabinowitz et al.
in Science 182 (1973), 725-727, and by Batschelet et al. in Journal
of Mathematical Biology 8 (1979), 15-23.
