Chaotic Dynamics - An Introduction

Klappentext This new edition of Chaotic Dynamics can be used as a text for a unit on chaos for physics and engineering students at the second- and third-year level. Such a unit would fit very well into modern physics and classical mechanics courses. Zusammenfassung New edition of a very successful undergraduate text on chaos. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Some helpful tools; 3. Visualization of the pendulum's dynamics; 4. Toward an understanding of chaos; 5. The characterization of chaotic attractors; 6. Experimental characterization, prediction, and modification of chaotic states; 7. Chaos broadly applied; Further reading; Appendix A. Numerical integration - Runge-Kutta method; Appendix B. Computer program listings; References; Index.

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• Authors: Gregory L. Baker, Gregory L. (Academy of the New Church Colle Baker, Gregory L. (Academy of the New Church College) Baker, Gregory L. Gollub Baker, Baker Gregory L., Jerry P. Gollub, Jerry P. (Haverford College Gollub, Gollub Jerry P.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.1996
• EAN: 9780521476850
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47685-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works; SCIENCE / Physics / General, MATHEMATICS / Differential Equations / General, SCIENCE / Chaotic Behavior in Systems, Physics, Differential calculus & equations, Chaos Theory, Differential calculus and equations