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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 notes for Chapter 10
- Homework Set 5 due 20 October
- Midterm Exam Monday 20 October:
Review Session Thursday, 16 October, 4:30pm in AQ 5018
Covering the material from Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 10.1-3
You may bring a page of handwritten notes; please, no graphical calculators
- No Lecture
Thanksgiving!
Have a good break
- Lecture 12: 15 October
Analysis of One-dimensional Maps:
Period-doubling (flip) bifurcation, computation and stability of 2-cycle, bifurcations of maps, periodic windows and intermittency, universality
Reading: Strogatz Ch.10 (10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6), lecture notes
- Homework Set 5
- Suggested additional exercises for this lecture (optional):
10.3.11, 10.4.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, 10.6.1, 10.6.3
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