MATH 130B: Ordinary Differential Equations II
Spring quarter, 2015

Syllabus


Days/Dates Lectures Sections Topics Covered
Monday 3/30 1 7.0, 7.1   Introduction to limit cycles. Examples
Wed. 4/1 2 7.2   Ruling out closed orbits
Friday 4/3 3 7.3   Poincare-Bendixson Theorem
Monday 4/6 4 7.3, 7.4   Poincare-Bendixson Theorem (continued). Lienard systems.
Wed. 4/8 5 7.5   Relaxation oscillations
Friday 4/10 6 7.6   Weakly nonlinear oscillators
Monday 4/13 7 7.6   Weakly nonlinear oscillators (continued)
Wed. 4/15 8 8.0, 8.1   Introduction to bifurcations. Saddle-node, transcritical, and pitchfork bifurcations
Friday 4/17 9 8.2   Hopf bifurcations
Monday 4/20 10 8.3   Osillating chemical reactions
Wed. 4/22 11 8.4   Global bifurcations of cycles
Friday 4/24 12 8.5   Hysteresis in the driven pendulum
Monday 4/27 13 8.7   Poincare Maps
Wed. 4/29 14 8.7   Poincare Maps (continued)
Friday 5/1   Midterm Exam.
Monday 5/4 15 9.0, 9.2   Lorenz equations and their simple properties
Wed. 5/6 16 9.2   Simple properties of the Lorenz equations (continued)
Friday 5/8 17 9.3   Chaos on a strange attractor
Monday 5/11 18 9.3   Chaos on a strange attractor (continued)
Wed. 5/13 19 9.4   Lorenz map
Friday 5/15 20 10.0-10.2   Introduction to One-dimensional maps. Fixed points and cobwebs. Logistic Map: Numerics
Monday 5/18 21 10.3   Logistic map: Analysis
Wed. 5/20 22 10.4   Periodic windows
Friday 5/22 23 10.5, 10.6   Liapunov exponent. Universality and experiments
Monday 5/25   Memorial Day Holiday
Wed. 5/27 24 10.7   Renormalization
Friday 5/29 25 11.1, 11.2   Countable and uncountable sets. Cantor Set
Monday 6/1 26 11.3, 11.4   Dimension of self-similar fractals. Box dimension
Wed. 6/3 27 11.5   Pointwise and correlation dimensions
Friday 6/5   Review for Final Exam
  Final Exam (cumulative): 11:30 am - 2:29 pm, Thursday, 6/11

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