Examples
- Simple pendulum, see picture (right).
- Simple harmonic oscillator where the phase portrait is made up of ellipses centred at the origin, which is a fixed point.
- Van der Pol oscillator see picture (right).
- Bifurcation diagram
- Mandelbrot set
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