CDS 202, Spring 2013

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This is the homepage for ACM/CDS 202 (Geometry of Nonlinear Systems) for Spring 2013.

Instructor:

  • Richard Murray (murray@cds.caltech.edu), 109 Steele

Lectures and course mailing list:

Teaching Assistant:

  • Katie Broersma

Office hours/recitations:

  • Office hours: TBD

Course Description

ACM/CDS 202. Geometry of Nonlinear Systems. 9 units (3-0-6); second term. Prerequisites: CDS 201 or AM 125 a. Basic differential geometry, oriented toward applications in control and dynamical systems. Topics include smooth manifolds and mappings, tangent and normal bundles. Vector fields and flows. Distributions and Frobeniuss theorem. Matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras. Exterior differential forms, Stokes theorem.

Course Schedule

Week Lec 1 Lec 2 Topic Template:Cds202-sp13 text Template:Cds202-sp13 text
1 6 Jan N/A Course introduction and scheduling None}} {{{8}}}}}
2 8 Jan 13 Jan Point set topology Template:Cds202-sp13 MTA 1 Template:Cds202-sp13 1
3 15 Jan 20 Jan Manifolds, maps, tangent spaces Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
4 22 Jan 27 Jan Immersions, submersions, inverse function theorem Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
5 29 Jan 3 Feb Tangent bundle, vector fields, flows Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
6 5 Feb 10 Feb Distributions, Frobenius theorem Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
7 12 Feb 17 Feb Lie groups and Lie algebras Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
8 19 Feb 24 Feb Applications of Lie groups Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
9 26 Feb 3 Mar Differential forms Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework
10 5 Mar 10 Mar Integration on manifolds, exterior derivative Template:Cds202-sp13 mra Template:Cds202-sp13 homework

Course Text

The primary course text is the third edition of Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications:

In addition, students may find the following textbooks useful:

  • Boothby, An Introduction to Differential Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry, Revised second edition, 2002.

Grading

The final grade will be based on homework and a final exam:

  • Homework (75%) - There will be 9 one-week problem sets, due in class one week after they are assigned. Late homework will not be accepted without prior permission from the instructor.
  • Final exam (25%) - The final will be handed out the last day of class and is due back at the end of finals week. Open book, time limit to be decided (likely N hours over a 4-8N hour period).

The lowest homework score you receive will be dropped in computing your homework average. In addition, if your score on the final is higher than the weighted average of your homework and final, your final will be used to determine your course grade.

Collaboration Policy

Collaboration on homework assignments is encouraged. You may consult outside reference materials, other students, the TA, or the instructor. Use of solutions from previous years in the course is not allowed. All solutions that are handed should reflect your understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing.

No collaboration is allowed on the final exam.