Phase Plane

For a function with 2 degrees of freedom, the 2-dimensional phase space that is accessible to the function or object is called its phase plane.

See also

Phase Space, World Line

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References

Tabor, M. "Dynamics in the Phase Plane." §1.3 in Chaos and Integrability in Nonlinear Dynamics: An Introduction. New York: Wiley, pp. 13-20, 1989.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Phase Plane." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PhasePlane.html

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