Linearizing Nonlinear Differential Equations Near a Fixed Point @Eigensteve
Linearizing Nonlinear Differential Equations Near a Fixed Point  @Eigensteve
Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video describes how to analyze fully nonlinear differential equations by analyzing the linearized dynamics near a fixed point. Most of our powerful solution techniques for ODEs are only valid for linear systems, so this is an important strategy for studying nonlinear systems.

This is a hugely important step towards analyzing nonlinear systems with linear techniques.

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0:00 Overview
3:37 Fixed points of nonlinear systems
5:32 Zooming in to small neighborhood of fixed point
7:03 Solving for linearization with Taylor series
12:10 Computing Jacobian matrix of partial derivatives
15:10 Example of linearizing nonlinear system
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Linearizing Nonlinear Differential Equations Near a Fixed Point

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