{"id":87,"date":"2021-03-25T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/chapter\/the-logistic-equation\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T02:47:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T02:47:26","slug":"the-logistic-equation","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/chapter\/the-logistic-equation\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to the Logistic Equation","rendered":"Introduction to the Logistic Equation"},"content":{"raw":"Differential equations can be used to represent the size of a population as it varies over time. We saw this in an earlier chapter in the section on exponential growth and decay, which is the simplest model. A more realistic model includes other factors that affect the growth of the population. In this section, we study the logistic differential equation and see how it applies to the study of population dynamics in the context of biology.","rendered":"<p>Differential equations can be used to represent the size of a population as it varies over time. We saw this in an earlier chapter in the section on exponential growth and decay, which is the simplest model. A more realistic model includes other factors that affect the growth of the population. In this section, we study the logistic differential equation and see how it applies to the study of population dynamics in the context of biology.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-87\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Calculus Volume 2. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Gilbert Strang, Edwin (Jed) Herman. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/calculus-volume-2\/pages\/1-introduction\">https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/calculus-volume-2\/pages\/1-introduction<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Access for free at https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/calculus-volume-2\/pages\/1-introduction<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17533,"menu_order":13,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"{\"1\":{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Calculus Volume 2\",\"author\":\"Gilbert Strang, Edwin (Jed) Herman\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/calculus-volume-2\/pages\/1-introduction\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"Access for free at https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/calculus-volume-2\/pages\/1-introduction\"}}","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-87","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":159,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/87\/revisions\/1634"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/159"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/87\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/calculus2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}