Exam 1 outline
Exam 1 will cover chapters 1 - 12 of our text.
The exam will be Wednesday morning, starting at 9 a.m. It should take around an hour, but students will have until noon. The exam is closed book and closed notes and other devices, but calculators will be allowed (and recommended).
The exam will primarily consist of problems like homework problems you have worked on. It will also include a significant number of questions related to our newly acquired technical vocabulary, from fill in the blank to short answers of a sentence or two.
You can expect problems on:
<to be completed during our Tuesday classes>
Orbits
Algebraic finding of fixed points
Graphical iterates
Criteria for Chaos
Time series
Stability
Chapter 8 short answer
Bifurcation diagram
Material from Ch. 1 - 12 that will NOT be on the exam:
epsilon-delta definition of SDIC.
Lyaponov exponents
Sharkovsky ordering