BIOL398-01/S11:Class Journal Week 3

Instructions

Formatting

• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
• Sign your portion of the journal with the standard wiki signature shortcut (~~~~).
• Add the "BIOL398-01/S11" category to the end of the wiki page (if someone has not already done so).

Reflection

1. What was the purpose of this assignment?
2. What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
3. What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
4. What (yet) do you not understand?
5. What is the relationship between homeostasis and equilibrium?

Class Responses

Sarah Carratt's Journal Entry

1. The purpose of this assignment was to give us practice with matlab and see if we could create a simple model on our own.
2. The easiest part of this assignment was understanding the technical definitions.
3. The hardest aspect of this assignment was working with matlab and creating differential equations.
4. I am really struggling with formatting in matlab.
5. "Homeostasis" is the term for the ability to maintain a good balance in an internal environment even as the external environment changes, and "equilibrium" is the point in time when a reaction is completely balanced.

Sarah Carratt 16:54, 30 January 2011 (EST)