Math 452 Fall 2006

Homework assignment #0 (due this Friday, September 1):

Read pages 1-10. Do E1.1 (at the end of the chapter, p. 36). Checkout E1.3.

“Checkout” means you should figure out how to do the problem but it is not to be handed in.

Homework assignment #1:

Read Chapter 1, pages 11 -24 by September 6. There will be a brief quiz Wednesday Sept. 6 on this material.In particular be able to define the terms used.

Hand in on Fri. September 8

T1.4, T1.5, T1.9 (Text problems in the chapter).

E1.4 (at the End of the chapter)
Checkout: E1.5, E1.6

An alternative method for T1.5 (finding a period 2 orbit) is to solve the system

y = f(x), x = f(y), simplifying the algebra where possible.