Van der Pol oscillator

non-conservative oscillator with non-linear damping
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Van der Pol oscillator

Summary

Van der Pol oscillator is an electronic oscillator[1]. It draws 279 Wikipedia views per month (electronic_oscillator category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • Van der Pol oscillator's image is recorded as Van der Pol Solution Curve.png[3].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's instance of is recorded as electronic oscillator[4].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's instance of is recorded as physical theory[5].
  • Balthasar van der Pol is named after Van der Pol oscillator[6].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's Commons category is recorded as Van der Pol oscillator[7].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0696jr[8].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's has characteristic is recorded as nonconservative force[9].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's defining formula is recorded as {d^2x \over dt^2}-\mu(1-x^2){dx \over dt}+x= 0[10].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's MathWorld ID is recorded as vanderPolEquation[11].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[12].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 98010927[13].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's Scholarpedia article ID is recorded as Van_der_Pol_oscillator[14].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C98010927[15].
  • Van der Pol oscillator's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as mathematics/van-der-pols-equation[16].

Why It Matters

Van der Pol oscillator draws 279 Wikipedia views per month (electronic_oscillator category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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