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    This exam summary is as follows: 1. This exam is for the Dynamics and Computation course, taking place on June 10th from 14:00-16:00. It counts for 50% of the final mark. 2. The exam consists of 4 questions worth various points totaling 16 points. The final mark is calculated using a formula that takes the number of points earned plus 2, divided by 2. 3. The exam tests skills in sketching solutions to initial value problems, finding and classifying steady states of nonlinear systems, and stability analysis of fixed points for one-dimensional maps.

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    This exam summary is as follows: 1. This exam is for the Dynamics and Computation course, taking place on June 10th from 14:00-16:00. It counts for 50% of the final mark. 2. The exam consists of 4 questions worth various points totaling 16 points. The final mark is calculated using a formula that takes the number of points earned plus 2, divided by 2. 3. The exam tests skills in sketching solutions to initial value problems, finding and classifying steady states of nonlinear systems, and stability analysis of fixed points for one-dimensional maps.

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    This exam summary is as follows: 1. This exam is for the Dynamics and Computation course, taking place on June 10th from 14:00-16:00. It counts for 50% of the final mark. 2. The exam consists of 4 questions worth various points totaling 16 points. The final mark is calculated using a formula that takes the number of points earned plus 2, divided by 2. 3. The exam tests skills in sketching solutions to initial value problems, finding and classifying steady states of nonlinear systems, and stability analysis of fixed points for one-dimensional maps.

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    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Dynamics and Computation, first exam,


    10th of June 2020, 14:00–16:00

    Motivate your answers. Calculators are not allowed. This exam counts for 50% of your final mark.
    Points are distributed as in the following table.

    Question Points
    1 2
    2(a) 2
    2(b) 1
    2(c) 1
    3(a) 2
    3(b) 4
    3(c) 2
    3(d) 2
    4 2

    The final mark is obtained with the following formula: (number points awarded + 2)/2.

    Question 1

    Consider the initial-value problem

    𝑥′ = 𝑥 − 𝑥3 , 𝑥(0) = 𝑥 0

    Sketch the solution 𝑥(𝑡) when 𝑥 0 = 3/2 and 𝑥 0 = 1/2 , without solving the initial-value problem.

    Question 2

    Consider the following system of ordinary differential equations

    𝑥 ′ = 𝑦,
    𝑦 ′ = −2𝑥 − 3𝑦.

    (a) Find the general solution (𝑥(𝑡), 𝑦(𝑡)) to this system.


    (b) Find the unique solution to the system with initial condition (𝑥(0), 𝑦(0)) = (0, 1) .
    (c) Sketch the solution from (b) in the phase plane
    Question 3
    Consider the following system of nonlinear differential equations

    𝑥′ = 𝑥 − 𝑦2 ,
    𝑦 ′ = −𝑥 + 2𝑦.

    (a) Sketch the nullclines, and use arrows to show the direction of the vectorfield on these nullclines
    (b) Determine steady states of the system above, and classify each of them using linear stability
    analysis
    (c) For each steady state in (b) compute the stable and unstable directions using linear stability
    analysis
    (d) In a separate picture from (a), draw a phase portrait containing: the steady states, any local
    stable/unstable manifold from (c), and a sketch of a few solutions to give an impression of the
    dynamics

    Question 4
    Consider the generic one-dimensional map 𝑥 𝑛+1 = 𝑓(𝑥 𝑛 ) . Give a definition of fixed point for the
    map. Give (without proof) a sufficient condition for the linear stability of a fixed point of the map.

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