S3_Modelling_and_Simulations_Model

Definition (Class Summary)
Computer modelling is the use of computer to create abstract models of objects, organisms, organizations, and processes. They can be done with spreadsheets, mathematical applications, or standard programming languages. A model is a set of concepts an ideas designed to mimic some kind of system, but a computer model isn't static; you can put it to work in a computer simulation to see how model operates under certain conditions. A well-designed model should behave like the system it imitates. Models aren't only mathematical models, they can also be physical models, mostly refer to scale models like the scale trains. In computer this kinds of models are generated in 3D virtual reality and thus giving life to all the characters of 3D cartoons and movies.

Class Exercises
Weather forecasting using computer models by the NASA. []

Examples or Activities
A business executive who creates a worksheet to project quarterly profits and losses is trying to model the economic world that affects the company. An engineer who uses a mathematics processor to test the stress capacity of a bridge is modelling the bridge mathematically.

An statistician who starts by examining the data collected in the real world creates statistical models to describe the data.


 * climate model || Computer model used to predict possible future climate change. ||