CDS 202
Geometry of Nonlinear Systems
Second Term: Winter 2005
TTh 10:30 AM - 12 noon
125 Steele
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CDS 202 is the foundation course
for work in geometric mechanics and geometric control theory. In addition,
students wanting to work in applied fields like fluid mechanics, elasticity,
computational mechanics, computational geometry and variational integrators
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Course Description: Basic differential geometry, oriented
toward applications in control and dynamical systems. Topics include smooth
manifolds and mappings, tangent and normal bundles. Vector fields and flows.
Distributions and Frobenius’s theorem. Matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras.
Exterior differential forms, Stokes' theorem, Discrete exterior calculus.
(9 units)
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