Advice formulating a question for an assignment

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I need to formulate a question that addresses the criteria "Solve engineering problems and formulate mathematical models using graphical and numerical integration".

I'm trying to decode what I can do for this and I don't have a problem coming up with a question to an engineering problem that can only be solved numerically, but I'm really unsure what it means with regard to formulating a model.

Can any of you suggest an approach here?

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What I would take it to be is making an equation based on data. If you do a bunch of experiments on gases, you might look at your data and come up with the ideal gas law $PV=nRT$. You could then fit your data to this to get a value for $R$. In a more complicated version, you could measure the spectrum of black bodies and come up with the Planck black body law, then fit the data to determine $h$.