550.391 Dynamical Systems

Autumn 2009

Instructor #1: Greg Eyink

Department: Applied Mathematics & Statistics

Phone: (410) 516-7201

Office: Whitehead 202-D

Office Hours: Mon, Wed - 11:00-11:50am

Teaching Assistant: Dr. Santha Akella

Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences

Phone: (410) 516-8049

Office: Olin 342

Office Hours: Mon, Wed - 1:40-2:40pm

Watch this space for important announcements, course information, and supplemental materials.
A sample midterm from a previous year is posted here and an answer key here . A second sample is here with its key here .
An answer key to our midterm is posted here .
The guidelines for the course termpaper are posted here .
The original 1963 paper of Lorenz is available here . It may be worth taking a look at this classic!

Assignment	Date Due in Class	Solutions
Problem Set #1	Friday, September 18, 2009	Problem Set #1
Problem Set #2	Friday, September 25, 2009	Problem Set #2
Problem Set #3	Friday, October 2, 2009	Problem Set #3
Problem Set #4	Friday, October 9, 2009	Problem Set #4
Problem Set #5	Friday, October 16, 2009	Problem Set #5
Problem Set #6	Friday, October 23, 2009	Problem Set #6
Problem Set #7	Friday, October 30, 2009	Problem Set #7
Problem Set #8	Friday, November 6, 2009	Problem Set #8
Problem Set #9	Probs. 1-3, Friday, November 13, 2009; Probs. 4-7, Friday, November 20, 2009	Problem Set #9
Problem Set #10	Monday, November 30, 2009	Problem Set #10

lorenz.m - Lorenz model vector field for use in matlab ODE integrators, like ode45
ode45demo.m - a demonstration code to illustrate the use of ode45 in plotting phase portraits

pplane7.m is an interactive tool run in Matlab for studying planar autonomous
systems of differential equations.

Chaos and Fractals A nice webpage by a physics grad student at JHU on chaos and fractals in solutions of ODE's