Homework #5, due Friday 10/16/98.

(Deadline pushed forward due to mistakes in problems.)

1) Find the real Jordan form of the matrix in this file: 
jordanhw.mws, and write down all
the kinds of terms that appear in the components of the
solution of x'=Ax.

2) p137: 4
(a) Problem SHOULD say "... for all t >= 0."

3) p137: 5
(b) CAUTION: Don't believe everything you read in a math book!
    Provide counter-examples if you don't believe Hirsch&Smale.