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Chapter 0 in the lecture notes
00:29 Historical discovery of solitons by John Scott Russell
03:23 Solitary waves in the lab
04:25 Solitary waves in nature
05:35 Definition of a soliton
07:55 KdV equation
13:55 Linearised KdV, dispersionless KdV, and full KdV
18:00 Time evolution of u(x,0) = N(N+1) sech^2(x), for various values of N
22:53 Collision of KdV solitons and phase shift
25:51 The modern revival of solitons
30:49 What this course is about
31:56 The ball and box model
35:13 PAUSE VIDEO FOR EXERCISE
36:53 2-colour ball and box model