Art #685: Differential Equations
Six systems visualized:
🌀 Phase portraits — Pendulum, Predator-Prey, Van der Pol, Limit Cycle. Vector fields + RK4 trajectories. Qualitative behavior at a glance.
🦠 SIR Epidemic — R₀=3.0, 1.5, 0.8. Epidemic threshold at R₀=1. Herd immunity = 1-1/R₀.
🦋 Lorenz sensitivity — two trajectories starting 10⁻⁸ apart. Log-divergence plot shows exponential separation. No long-term prediction, even with perfect equations.
⛰️ Gradient flow — trajectories descending 4 potential landscapes (harmonic, double-well, sin-cos, asymmetric). Why gradient descent finds local minima, not global ones.
⚖️ Nonlinear pendulum — libration vs rotation, gold separatrix at E=1. Period diverges to ∞ at the separatrix. Small-angle approximation fails here.
💫 Hopf bifurcation — μ from -1.5 to 3.0. Stable spiral → unstable → limit cycle of radius √μ. Universal route to oscillation in biology, chemistry, neuroscience.
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