Remember:
Continuos SystemsLinearNon-Linear
1DStable steady state.
unstable steady state.
Marginally stable steady state.
NO OSCILLATIONS.
There can be more than one steady state, and they all can be isolated.
2DStable or unstable: nodes and spirals.
Saddle (unstable), and center (marginal).
You could have limit cycles, robust oscillations (menaing that they are attracting osicllations and not marginal ones).
3DLike in 2D (linear), but with one more steady state.
We could have 2 imaginary conjugate eigenvalues and 1 real eigenvalue, for example.
You could have a chaotic system.

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