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Instructor:
Ralf Wittenberg
K-10536, 291-4792
ralf@sfu.ca |
Lectures:
M 2:30-3:20pm
W 2:30-4:20pm
in AQ 4130 |
Text:
Steven Strogatz,
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Westview Press |
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Announcements:
- Lecture 21: 24 November
- Hopf Bifurcation:
Supercritical and subcritical Hopf bifurcation
Reading: Strogatz Ch.8 (8.2), lecture notes
- Homework Set 9
- Suggested additional exercises for this lecture (optional):
8.2.1, 8.2.8, 8.2.9, 8.2.12
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- Lecture 22: 26 November
- Creation of Oscillations:
Discussion of second midterm exam; Hopf, saddle-node, infinite-period and homoclinic bifurcations of limit cycles; flows on the torus and quasiperiodicity, Poincare map
Reading: Strogatz Ch.8 (8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.7), lecture notes
- Homework Set 10
- Suggested additional exercises for this lecture (optional):
8.3.2, 8.4.3, 8.4.12, 8.6.1, 8.7.1
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