HLs Slope Fields 5.15
Conceptual overview: 'Slope fields' as an introduction to differential equations - what are they? Instead of starting with "data", plotting it, and finding which functions have a similar shape e.g. maximums, minimums, asymptotes, x-intercepts etc. we can start with knowledge/theory about what factors encourage, or discourage, the growth, for example, of a population, or a disease. For many biological, physical,...