Mathematical Modelling

The aim of this course is to enable you to study real-world phenomena by constructing and using simple models.

This course runs in the Spring Term of the 1st year of both BSc and MPhys courses. As the course progresses, this page will be updated with online notes that can be downloaded.

1. Introduction
2. Dimensional Analysis
3. Similitude
4. Model fitting
   Example Excel spreadsheet for non-linear curve fitting
5. Interpolation
6. Optimisation

Weekly Problems

The model solutions will be put up on the Physics intranet, or you can find them here. For questions 7 and 8 you will need a linear program solver.