Physics 429: Introduction to Nonlinear Dynamics
SUNY Cortland
Fall 2017
Homework
| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Aug. 28 | Chapter 1, 2.0- 2.2 | |
Aug. 24 |
| Aug. 30 | Chapter 2.3 and 2.4 | |
Aug. 24 |
| Sept. 4 | Labor Day |
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| Sept. 6 | Chapter 2.6 and 2.8, bring your laptop to
class.
| 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.5, 2.2.3, and 2.2.7. Bonus problem: 2.2.13
| Aug. 24
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| Sept. 11 | Chapter 3.0-3.3 | |
Sept. 7 |
| Sept. 13 | Chapter 3.4 and 3.5 | 2.3.3, 2.4.2, 2.4.8 2.6.1,
2.8.2--compare your results to numerical integrations using
Euler's method, and 2.8.6, but only parts a and c (hint, keep making
delta t smaller until the result is stable in the third
decimal place)
| Sept. 7 |
| Sept. 18 | 4.0-4.4 |
| Sept. 7
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| Sept. 20 | 5.0-5.1
| 3.1.1, 3.2.3, 3.3.1 (part d is optional), 3.4.1, 3.5.4
| Sept. 7
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| Sept. 25 | Chapter 5.2 |
| Oct. 3 |
| Sept. 27 | |
| Oct. 3
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| Oct. 2 | Section 6.0-6.4 |
| Oct. 3
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| Oct. 4 | Student presentation of phase space simulations |
| Oct. 19
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| Oct. 9 | Review
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4.1.2, 4.3.3, 4.4.4,
5.1.3, 5.1.7 and for 5.2.4, 5.2.6, and 5.2.8 use numerical
integration to help you sketch the phase portrait.
| Oct. 19
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| Oct. 11 |
| Exam 1 (1-D systems, Ch1-Ch3)
| Oct. 3
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| Oct. 16 | Fall Break |
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| Oct. 18 | Chapter 6.5 |
| Oct. 19
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| Oct. 23 | Chapter 6.7, 7.0-7.2 |
| Oct. 19
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| Nov. 20 | Chapter 9 | | Nov. 16
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| Nov. 23 | Thanksgiving Break
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| Nov. 12
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| Nov. 27 |
| 6.1.2, 6.3.4 (using computer simulation will help you fill in the
phase space), 6.3.9(E.C.), 6.4.9, 6.5.1, 7.1.2, 7.3.2 (you need
not construct the trapping region), 7.5.7 (show that there
is a limit cycle using simulation), 8.1.1, 8.2.2, 8.2.3,
8.4.3 (E.C.), 8.7.9
| Nov. 16
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Final Exam Period Tuesday Dec. 12 at 11am-1pm.