1999-McCartney, Mark and Malachy Carey - Modelling Traffic Flow: Solving and Interpreting Differential Equations.
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McCartney, Mark and Malachy Carey. 1999. Modelling Traffic Flow: Solving and Interpreting Differential Equations. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA. 18(3): 115–121.
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Abstract: A simple mathematical model for how traffic flows along a road is introduced. The resulting first-order ordinary differential equations can be used as an application of solution techniques taught at A-level and first year undergraduate level, and as a motivator to encourage students to think critically about the physical interpretation of the results which the equation produces.
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