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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.

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