Predator–prey

Do predator and prey populations settle to a balance, or oscillate forever?

How the lab tests it

Integrate the Lotka–Volterra equations (RK4) and watch the phase-space orbit; track the conserved quantity V and measure the cycle's period from successive prey peaks.

What it checks

a closed orbit (V = δx − γ·ln x + βy − α·ln y conserved) with small-amplitude period T₀ = 2π/√(αγ)