On Sep 22, 6:25 pm, Tom Boothby <tomas.boot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent a while thinking that I was going to be a mechanical engineer,
> and took a few of the ME intro courses. Engineering statics and
> dynamics can be phrased entirely in terms of linear algebra, though
> the courses I took didn't present them as such.
I've never had any ME courses and I'm also not very knowledgeable in
dynamical systems or physics, but I thought it was untrue that
linearization of the phase space is adequate to describe the dynamics
if the phase space isn't structurally stable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartman-Grobman_theorem
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