Lecture Notes

The lecture notes below supplement the textbook: Strogatz, Steven H. Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering. Westview Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780813349107. [Preview with Google Books]

Selected Lecture Notes from Fall 2012 (PDF)

Bead Moving along a Thin, Rigid Wire (PDF)

Bifurcations: Baby Normal Forms (PDF)

Tricky Asymptotics Fixed Point Notes (PDF)

Weakly Nonlinear Things: Oscilators (PDF)

Hopf Bifurcations (PDF)