Assignments

Midterm

The exam consists of three parts: some problems from the book, a numerical exercise, and a proposal like we discussed in class. You must complete all parts to receive full credit.

1. Problems: 3.5.4, 4.3.6, 5.1.9G, 5.2.13, 6.3.6, 6.5.15, 6.6.8G, 6.7.2, where G denotes problems that must be done by graduate students. Unlike homework sets, you may not discuss these problems with your classmates.

2. For problem 6.3.6 write a program in Matlab, Octave, python, etc to sketch the phase plane and plot trajectories x(t) and y(t). Compare what you generate to solutions generated in pplane8.m (see http://math.rice.edu/~dfield/index.html). You must work on your own for this problem.

3. Collaboratively write a 1-3 page project proposal which will summarize the goals of your experiment and cite any relevant literature. We would like these to be written using the LaTeX typesetting language. This can be downloaded and installed freely from http://miktex.org/ and free editors are available on the web as well http://www.latexeditor.org/ for example.

4. Create a website for your project. Website content will be edited on the class wiki which will soon be located at http://nldlab.gatech.edu/w/. Each group will be responsible for creating a wiki page for their experiment which will contain background information on the phenomena studied. Wiki pages should contain outside references such as journal articles. A sample page will be posted.

Assignment 2

HW2: 3.5.6G, 3.6.6, 4.1.4, 4.3.3, 4.3.10G, 4.5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.10b, 5.2.12, 5.2.13G.

Problems with a G at the end are problems added for the graduate students. Undergraduates may hand them in for extra credit.

HW is due in class on Tuesday, Sept 27. Please put your name and if you are a graduate student/undergrad on the HW. Please staple all sheets together.

Assignment 1

Problems are from Strogatz: 2.2.7, 2.3.3, 2.4.2, 2.5.3G, 2.6.2G, 2.8.8, 3.1.1, 3.4.11, 3.4.14, 3.5.6G, 3.6.6. Problems with a G at the end are problems added for the graduate students. Undergraduates may hand them in for extra credit.

HW is due in class on Tuesday, Sept 13. Please put your name and if you are a graduate student/undergrad on the HW. Please staple all sheets together.