Abstract
A Version of Melnikov’s method is developed for time-periodic perturbations of a planar vector field having a separatrix loop at a saddle-node. The method is applied to the forced pendulum, or Josephson junction, equation $\beta \ddot \phi + \dot \phi + \sin \phi = \rho + \varepsilon \sin \omega t$.

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