Math 354-1, Section 61, Fall 2009:
Chaotic Dynamical Systems

Announcements:

Midterm 2:
I have moved the date of the second midterm. It will now be held on Tuesday, November 17th in discussion section. This will allow us to move more slowly through the material in Chapter 10.

Course information:

Additional documents:

Practice problems for the second midterm: practice-midterm2.pdf
Answers to two problems in section 10.2 of the homework: 10_2.pdf
Answer to 10.1.2 of the homework: 10_1_2.pdf
Handout on metrics and shift spaces: metrics_and_shift_spaces.pdf
Solutions to first midterm: midterm1-answers.pdf
Related links from recent lectures:
- Java applets for exploring bifurcations of the Logistic family
- Wikipedia has a nice image of the bifurcation diagram of the Logistic family.
- An applet for exploring Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set.
- A video of a double pendulum.
- A video of vibrating cornstarch.
Practice problems for the first midterm: practice-midterm1.pdf
Lecture notes on bifurcations: bifurcations.pdf
Answer to problem 9.2.2 from the first homework assignment: hw1_ans_9_2_2.pdf
A collection of theorems from calculus, and sections 9.2-9.4: theorems1.pdf
Answer to problem 9.1.7 from the first homework assignment: hw1_ans_9_1_7.pdf
Graphs for use with the first homework assignment: hw1-graphs.pdf

Section Information:

Meeting times:	MWF 12-12:50 in Room M349 of the Technological Institute
Instructor:	W. Patrick Hooper (You can call me "Pat")
Office:	Room B22 in the basement of Lunt
Email:
Office Hours:	Mondays 2-3:30pm and Friday 1-2pm, or by appointment. Email me to make an appointment.

Discussion Section:

Meeting times:	Tuesdays 12-12:50 in Room M349 of the Technological Institute
Teaching Assistant:	Shuyun (Conan) Wu
Office:	Lunt B10
Office Hours:	Tuesdays 5-6pm
Email:	777 $at math dot northwestern dot edu$

Last modified on October 14, 2009.
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