BMA771 Homework

Homework will usually be due on Thursday at 5pm to my mailbox (406 Cox Hall; if closed, leave under my office door: Cox 308). If more convenient, you may hand in homework at Wednesday’s class.

  • Sample final exam.
  • Homework eleven: 8.3.1 (parts c onwards requires that we have covered Hopf bifurcations… coming soon!). Due Monday November 27th. My answers
  • Homework ten: 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.2.10, 7.2.13 (after reading section on Dulac’s criterion—last part of section 7.2 in Strogatz. Ignore section on proof of the result!). Due Monday November 20th. My answers
  • Homework nine: 6.3.10, 6.3.17, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.8.1 (after watching Index Theory video… which should go online in the next 48 hours). This will be due Monday November 13th. My answers
  • Homework eight: Strogatz questions: 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.1.10, 6.1.11 (use PPLANE for 6.1.8, .10 and .11), and two questions on this sheet. (You have already done some parts of the second question, and we talked about another part in class.) Optional: question 6.1.14. Due MONDAY November 6th. My answers
  • Homework seven: Strogatz questions 5.2.1, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.8, 5.2.9 and and 6.1.1. Due FRIDAY October 27th. My answers
  • Sample mid-term test. Mid-term will be closed-book and you will have the entire class period to complete it.
  • Homework six: Strogatz questions 4.1.1, 4.1.3, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.3. Due MONDAY October 2nd. My answers
  • Homework five: Strogatz questions 3.4.1, 3.4.8, 3.4.11 (slightly more difficult question) and 3.6.2 (but do not do part iii). 3.6.2 can be done using an almost identical method to the “imperfect bifurcation” (pitchfork) example from class. Due Friday September 22nd. My answers
  • Homework four: Question sheet. Due Friday September 15th.
  • Homework three: Question sheet. This short homework is due Thursday September 8th. (Questions that are struck out are on material that we haven’t yet reached and will be moved to next week’s homework.) My answers.
  • Homework two: Question sheet. Due FRIDAY September 1st. My answers
  • Homework one: instructions and question sheet and notes on simple population model. Due Thursday August 24th.