418 Index

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saddle, 40, 168 tangent plane, 286
saddle connection, 191 tangent space, 286
saddle-node bifurcation, 176 threshold level, 236
second order, 23 time t map, 64
seed, 330 total energy, 281
semi-conjugacy, 343 trace, 62
sensitive dependence, 307, 324, 340 trace-determinant plane, 61
sensitive dependence on initial conditions, transitive, 325, 340
156 transverse line, 216
sensitivity constant, 340 two body problem, 293
shift map, 349, 372
Shil’nikov system, 361 U
sink, 3, 43, 167, 331
spiral, 47 uniform convergence, 391
SIR model, 233 unstable, 175
SIRS model, 235 unstable curve, 168
slope field, 5 local, 169
source, 3, 331 unstable curve theorem, 169
spiral, 47 unstable line, 40
span, 75, 88 unstable set, 373
spiral sink, 47
spiral source, 47 V
spring constant, 26
stable, 3, 174 van der Pol equation, 261, 263
asymptotically, 174 variational equation, 151, 404
stable curve, 168 vector field, 24
local, 169 voltage, 258
stable curve theorem, 169 voltage state, 259
stable line, 40 Volterra-Lotka system, 238
stable set, 373
standard basis, 28, 74 W
state, 258
state space, 259, 278 web diagram, 332
straight line solution, 33
subspace, 75, 88 Z
symbolic dynamics, 344
symmetric matrix, 205 zero velocity curve, 287
system of differential equations, 21 zombies, 251