In dynamics, the Van der Pol oscillator is a non-conservative oscillator with non-linear damping. It evolves in time according to the second order differential equation:
where x is the position coordinate — which is a function of the time t, and μ is a scalar parameter indicating the nonlinearity and the strength of the damping.
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