Lecturer:Panos Kevrekidis
Class Meetings:TTh 1:00-2:15, LGRT 119
PK's Office Hours: W 2:00-4:00 p.m., Th: 2:15-4:00 p.m., or by appointment.
PK's Contact Info:
Office:LGRT 1524
Phone:413-577-1977
Fax:413-545-1801
E-mail: kevrekid@math.umass.edu
Mailbox:LGRT 1623D

Handouts:

General Information Handout

Notes for the Pendulum/Spring/Quadrature Discussion

Review Practice Problems for the Midterm Exam of 10/22 (to be addressed in part in the review class of 10/20 by Prof. Whitaker)


Assignments:

Assignment 1: Due Thursday, September 17

Assignment 2: Due Thursday, September 24

Assignment 3: Due Thursday, October 1

Assignment 4: Due Thursday, October 8

Assignments 5-6: 3.7 and 5.1 Due Thursday, October 15; 5.2, 5.3 Due Thursday, October 29

Assignment 7: Due Thursday, November 5

Assignment 8: Due Tuesday, November 17

Assignment 9: Due Tuesday, November 24


Downloads / Matlab Computations:

Two codes for the numerical solution of ODEs by

John Polking

of Rice University are:

pplane7.m for planar systems

odesolve.m for higher-order autonomous systems

A few introductory links for Matlab:

A basic tutorial for Matlab

A Matlab Tutorial by Peter Turner of Clarkson University

An online tutorial by Mathworks

A Matlab Tutorial by Monica Nitsche of the University of New Mexico

The Rossler code

and

The Lorenz code

and

their integrator used in class

The simple 1-equation Newton code presented in class

The generalization of Newton to 2 equations

The Runge-Kutta integrator for the 2-equation system

An interesting discussion of dynamical models of love by J.C. Sprott