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5-12PS AID: 20431|25/05/2019

Consider the Van der Pol equation y "  (1  y 2 ) y ' y  0 (   0 , constant)

 0 1
This can be linearized as, y2 '   (1  y12 ) y2  y1   y1   y2 with matrix as  
 1  
Therefore, p   , q  1,    2  4
Now if,   2 giving unstable node.
0    2 Giving unstable spiral.
  0 Giving p  0, q  1,   0  4  4  0 .
Hence,   0 is a center.
2    0 is a stable attractive spiral and   2 is stable attractive node.