Paper 2, Section II, B
Part IA, 2015
Write as a system of two first-order equations the second-order equation
where is a small, positive constant, and find its equilibrium points. What is the nature of these points?
Draw the trajectories in the plane, where , in the neighbourhood of two typical equilibrium points.
By considering the cases of and separately, find explicit expressions for as a function of . Discuss how the second term in affects the nature of the equilibrium points.