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Calculus to the Rescue

Robert Israel 6567
October 27 2009
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This is something I produced for my Calculus students.  It is based on some actual research in Biology by Larry Dill of Simon Fraser University, showing that the escape response of the Zebra Danio, a small tropical fish, is triggered when the rate of change of the visual angle of a potential predator becomes too large (see ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursedoc/math102/keshet.notes/chapter11Notes.pdf, section 11.2).
Here's my Maple document.
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