The Forced Van Der Pol Oscillator
The forced, or driven, Van der Pol oscillator takes the 'original' function and adds a driving function Asin(ωt) to give a differential equation of the form:
where A is the amplitude, or displacement, of the wave function and ω is its angular velocity.
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