Concentration of a Medication in the Bloodstream

I created the mathematical content of the LiveMath (LM) notebook, below, in the fall semester, 1992, for a MTH 131 class consisting mostly of nursing and pharmacy students. The material went beyond the textbook examples, but I thought it to be the type of thing that these students would be interested in.

The further point was to investigate an important problem:

(1) that could not be attacked by hand;

(2) where solutions cannot be found analytically;

(3) where derivatives sometimes can't be used at all; hence

(4) showing the indispensability of computer algebra systems.

Here I also want to contrast the interactive, free-form, and natural structure of a LM notebook with command-line programs such as Maple.