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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 5
- Homework Set 6 due 29 October
- Midterm Exam Monday 20 October:
Covering the material from Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 10.1-3
You may bring a page of handwritten notes; please, no graphical calculators
- Midterm Exam
One-dimensional Flows and Maps, and their Bifurcations
Good luck!
- Lecture 13: 22 October
Two-dimensional Flows:
The phase plane, direction fields, trajectories; linear systems, harmonic oscillator, stability
Discussion of end-of-semester project
Reading: Strogatz Ch.5 (5.1, 5.2), lecture notes
- Homework Set 6
- Suggested additional exercises for this lecture (optional):
5.1.1, 5.1.12, 5.1.13
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