I want to get some terminology straight.
A non-autonomous system is as far as I can understand a system, where the acceleration depends explicitly on time. This again means that the phase trajectory can cut itself since there is no unique solution to the equations of motion for non-autonomous systems. I think that is how my teacher said it.
I just want to get straight what a non-autonomous system is. Is it everything where q'' has an explicit time dependence? So what if we had the equation of motion:
q'' = qt
Does that equation describe a non-autonomous system? And is there in general no unique solution to the above equation given q(0),q'(0)? And why is that?
A non-autonomous system is as far as I can understand a system, where the acceleration depends explicitly on time. This again means that the phase trajectory can cut itself since there is no unique solution to the equations of motion for non-autonomous systems. I think that is how my teacher said it.
I just want to get straight what a non-autonomous system is. Is it everything where q'' has an explicit time dependence? So what if we had the equation of motion:
q'' = qt
Does that equation describe a non-autonomous system? And is there in general no unique solution to the above equation given q(0),q'(0)? And why is that?