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Autonomous system (mathematics)

 

Autonomous system (mathematics)

In differential equations, an autonomous system is an equation of the form
:
where x takes values in n-dimensional Euclidean space and t is usually time. It is distinguished from systems of differential equations of the form
:
in which the law governing the rate of motion of a particle depends not only on the particle's location, but also on time; such systems are not autonomous.


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