CDS 140a - Fall 2009

Lecture Notes

• Introductory Material
  
  
• Linear Systems
  
  
• Vector Fields and Flows
  
  
• Stability and Linearization
  
  
• Mechanical Systems
  
  
• Invariant Manifolds
  
  
• Liapunov Functions
  

Notes from the TA

• A Symmetry Crash Course
  
• Analytic vs Smooth Functions and Manifolds