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CDS 140b Index
CDS 140b - Introduction to Dynamics
Second Term: Winter 2004
Time and Place: Tues and Thurs, 9-10:30 am, 125 Steele
Instructor:
Wang Sang Koon
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koon@cds.caltech.edu
Office Hours: (124 Steele) Tues and Thurs, 3-4
Teaching Assistant:
Shane Ross
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shane@cds.caltech.edu
Office Hours: (11 Steele) Monday, 3-5
Course Description:
CDS 140b is a continuation of CDS 140a. Most of the
course (80%) will cover basic tools from nonlinear dynamics,
such as perturbation theory, method of averaging, bifurcation theory,
global bifurcation and chaos, and Hamiltonian systems.
Besides studying standard textbook examples
(van der Pol, Duffing, and Lorenz equations), for some of the course (20%)
we will analyze and design new classes of space mission trajectories,
applying basic tools of dynamical systems, such as periodic and
quasi-periodic orbits, invariant manifolds, homoclinic and heteroclinic
connections, symbolic dynamics and chaos.
Course Outline (pdf)
Course Lectures and Outline
Course Text and Additional References
Grading, Homework, Exam Policy, and Software
Send feedback to
shane@cds.caltech.edu
Koon's Homepage
Shane's Homepage
Course Listing
Last Year's CDS 140b page
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