6. SUMMARY

Now that you have completed this section you should be able to

- Understand and find equilibrium points
- Understand and find directrices
- Plot direction fields
- Plot and interpret phase portraits
- Plot time series
- Find the trace, determinant and discriminant of a matrix
- Find and determine the type of eigenvalues of a matrix
- Classify the stability of the equilibrium points from the eigenvalues
- Classify the stability of the equilibrium points using the tr-det diagram