diff --git a/300s School/ME 2016 - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 1/2024-10-28 Stability.md b/300s School/ME 2016 - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 1/2024-10-28 Stability.md index d6d7d59d0..03d9f414f 100644 --- a/300s School/ME 2016 - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 1/2024-10-28 Stability.md +++ b/300s School/ME 2016 - Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 1/2024-10-28 Stability.md @@ -15,4 +15,12 @@ This is a solution of $\dot x = X$ ### 'Half-path' or 'Half-orbit' or 'Semi-orbit' 1. Start on $a^*$ and travel on half-path $\mathcal{H}^*$ 2. $x^*(t_0) = a^*$ -$x^*$ is **Poincare stable** if all sufficiently small disturbances of the initial value $a^*$ lead to half-paths that remain a small distance from $\mathcal{H}^*$. \ No newline at end of file +$x^*$ is **Poincare stable** if all sufficiently small disturbances of the initial value $a^*$ lead to half-paths that remain a small distance from $\mathcal{H}^*$. +![[Pasted image 20241028151006.png]]![[Pasted image 20241028151117.png]] +## How do we define distances? +$$\text{dist}[x, c] = \min_{y \in C}|x-y|$$ +Where c is a curve. +Where in the plane we're using the minimum of the 2 norm. + +Stable half-paths can be generally stable, approaching an equilibrium, or periodic. +Unstable half-paths exceed the bound $\epsilon$ somewhere. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Pasted image 20241028151006.png b/Pasted image 20241028151006.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f7ca4b85f Binary files /dev/null and b/Pasted image 20241028151006.png differ diff --git a/Pasted image 20241028151117.png b/Pasted image 20241028151117.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..4d4d7adf4 Binary files /dev/null and b/Pasted image 20241028151117.png differ