Modeling Slime
Channel: Mathy Matt: Math and the World
Date: 2021-04-19

I explore how to use a random walk in Excel to model the growth of slime that can "smell" a food source.

RELATED RESOURCES

Nova episode "Secret Mind of Slime": https://video.woub.org/video/secret-mind-of-slime-oa3w89/

Dr. Garg Video "Simulating a Random Walk in Excel": https://youtu.be/pyUdEQJsP5o

Logistic Function on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function

Random Walk on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk