Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer
Jim Denier
Contact via 9850 8956
12 Wally’s Walk (E7A) 6.03
by appointment
Lecturer/Convenor
Paul Smith
Contact via 9850 8944
12 Wally's Walk (E7A) 7.26
Tuesday, 2-3pm
Jim Denier
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
MATH235 and (MATH232 or MATH236)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The remarkable fact that determinism does not guarantee regular or predictable behaviour is having a major impact on many fields of science and engineering, as well as mathematics. The discovery of chaos, or of chaotic motions, in simple dynamical systems changes our understanding of the foundations of physics and has many practical applications as well, shedding new light on the workings of lasers, fluids, mechanical structures and chemical reactions. Dynamical systems involve the study of maps and systems of differential equations. In this unit, the diversity of nonlinear phenomena is explored through the study of second-order differential equations, and one-dimensional and two-dimensional maps. Chaotic motions are introduced by a study of the driven pendulum, a second-order system that includes nonlinear aspects usually ignored in simpler treatments. An appropriate balance between forcing and damping leads to irregular, but bounded, motions that do not repeat themselves, even approximately – truly chaotic motion in a simple deterministic system.
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IMPORTANT: If you apply for Disruption to Study for your final examination, you must make yourself available for the week of December 10 – 14, 2018. If you are not available at that time, there is no guarantee an additional examination time will be offered. Specific examination dates and times will be determined at a later date.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Final Examination | 60% | No | Exam session |
Assignment 1 | 11% | No | See iLearn |
Assignment 2 | 11% | No | See iLearn |
Assignment 3 | 11% | No | See iLearn |
Project | 7% | No | Week 2 |
Due: Exam session
Weighting: 60%
Final Exam, covering content from the whole teaching Session.
Due: See iLearn
Weighting: 11%
Assignment based upon ideas and techniques from the lectures in Weeks 1–4. Some computational techniques may be required also.
Due: See iLearn
Weighting: 11%
Assignment based upon ideas and techniques from the lectures in Weeks 5–7. Some computational techniques will be required.
Due: See iLearn
Weighting: 11%
Assignment based upon ideas and techniques from the lectures in Weeks 8–10. Some computational techniques may be required also.
Due: Week 2
Weighting: 7%
Project,to be worked on and completed in Week 2, is to reinforce core ideas of linear algebra with techniques from numerical linear algebra and MATLAB and are requisite for the Continuous Dynamical Systems stream of this unit.
The following text is strongly recommended for the discrete dynamical systems material in this unit; it is available from the CO-OP Bookshop on campus, and is in the reference section of the Library.
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13/07/2018 | Changes to the timing of assessment tasks. Changes to the timing of delivery. |