Mathematics for aspiring physicists

IAP 2021

Lecture 2

1.2 First order ODEs

1.2.1 General solution

 

1.2.2   Population Growth; logistic equation

+ (transcritical) Bifurcation

1.2.3   Symmetry breaking

 

1.2.4   Universality; critical slowing down

Recap  

(Combined notes for lecture 2)

Exercises:  

MathPhys lec2 - last update 12/31/20 by M. Kardar