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Review for Nonlinear Dynamics

Topics to Review

Exam 1

  • Exam 1
    • Exponential Growth
    • Qualitative Shape
    • Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions
    • Fixed Point Stability
    • Sudden Population Collapse
  • Homework 1
    • Sketching Solutions
    • Allee Effect
    • Saddle-Node Collisions
    • Collapse of a Population
  • Homework 2
    • Fixed Point Analysis
    • Logistic Growth
    • Predator Prey Model
  • Homework 3
    • Autonomy and Non-autonomy
    • Lipschitz Condition
    • Existence and Uniqueness (global, local)
    • Bifurcation Diagrams

Exam 2

  • Exam 2
    • Phase Locking
    • Periodic Solutions
    • Conservative Systems
    • Matrix Exponentials
    • Ghost of the Saddle-Node
  • Homework 4
    • Euler's Method
    • Laser Bifurcation
    • Transcritical and Supercritical Bifurcations
  • Homework 5
    • Overdamped Limits
    • Pitchfork Bifurcations
    • Flow on a Circle
    • Ghost of the Saddle Node
    • Oscillator Entrainment
  • Homework 6
    • Hartman-Grobman Theorem
    • Hartman-Grobman Homeomorphism
    • Oscillator Entrainment
    • Non-harmonic Oscillators
    • Ghost of the Saddle Node
    • Overdamped Limits
  • Homework 7
    • Matrix Exponentials
    • Fast and Slow Directions
    • Jordan Normal Forms
    • Determinant-Trace Stability Analysis
    • Circles under Invertible Maps

Exam 3

  • Homework 8
    • Damped Harmonic Oscillator
    • Love Affair
    • Index Theory
    • The Brusselator
    • Making a First-Order System
    • Conservative Systems
  • Homework 9
    • Hopf Bifurcation Theorem
    • Normal Form of Super/Sub-Critical Bifurcations
    • Bifurcation Invariance up to Naming
  • Homework 10
    • One Dimensional Maps
    • Iterative Periodic Orbits
    • Similarity Dimension
    • The Lorenz System's Dimension
    • Box Dimension
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