MATH 345 Jan-April 2012 Lecture Summary


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UBC closed
0104 Outline
Overview; examples of the geometric approach
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0106 PART I. One dimensional flows
§2.1-2.3   one dimensional flow, fixed points, their stability by graph
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2 0109 §2.4   stability analysis by linear approximation, exceptional cases
§2.5   unique existence theorem (statement)
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0111           examples of nonuniqueness and blow-up. No crossing.
§2.6   no oscillation in 1D flows.
§2.7   potential
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0113           potential continued; (we skip §2.8)
§3.1   saddle-node bifurcation, bifurcation diagram
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3 0116           normal form
§3.2   transcritical bifurcation
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0118           normal form and 2nd example of transcritical bifurcation
§3.4   pitchfork bifurcation
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0120           supercritical and subcritical pitchfork bifurcation, normal form
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4 0123           subcritical pitchfork with higher order damping
§3.5   example: damped bead on a rotating hood
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0125 §3.6   imperfect bifurcations (bifurcations with 2 parameters)
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§3.7   example: insect outbreak
          fixed point surface in k-r-x space: graph and Maple code (you can rotate it in Maple)
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PART II. Two dimensional flows
§5.1-5.2   2D linear flows
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§6.1-6.3   fixed points and linearizations
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§6.3-6.4   examples, competition models
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§6.5   conservative systems
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          (continue)
§6.6   reversible systems
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          examples
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§6.7   example: pendulum
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          basin of attraction for damped pendulum
§6.8   index theory
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Midterm exam

0220-0224 Midterm break

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          index theory continued
Chapter 7   limit cycles
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§7.1   examples
§7.2   ruling out closed orbits: gradient flows
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          Liapunov functions and Dulac's criterion
§7.3   Poincare-Bendixson theorem: statement
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          applications of the Poincare-Bendixson theorem.
          figures for example 7.3.2: a, b
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§7.4   Lienard equation
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Chapter 8   bifurcations for 2D systems
§8.1   Effectively one-dimensional bifurcations for 2D systems
§8.2   Hopf bifurcation
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          Hopf bifurcation continued
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§8.3   example: oscillating chemical reactions
          links: wikipedia, youtube video 1, youtube video 2
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§8.7   Poincare map and its linear stability
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PART III. Chaos and strange attractors
§8.6   quasi-periodic flows: a trajectory that is dense on a torus
§9.2   Lorenz equations.
          youtube videos: Lorenz waterwheel, Lorenz attractor.
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          Lorenz equations continued
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§9.3   chaos on a strange attractor
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§9.5   global behavior for different parameter values
§10.1   one dimensional maps, fixed points and cobwebs
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§10.2-10.3   logistic map
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§10.4   periodic windows
§10.6   universality
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§11.2   Cantor sets
§12.1-12.2   examples of stretching and folding for strange attractors
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review

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Good Friday


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Final Exam  3:30-6pm