1.5 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