Math 145, Winter 1999: Chaos Theory

Lecture 3W, 20 Jan 1999


  • Another reminder on lab portfolios
  • Review of the 2D Poincare section for
    the 3D ring model for a forced oscillator
    (eg, Duffing, Van der Pol)
  • Homoclinic tangle for a fixed point
    of a 2D cascade
References for this material:
  • Abraham and Shaw
  • Thompson and Stewart
  • Guckenheimer and Holmes


Revised 21 Jan 1999 by Ralph