Gregory L. Baker

Chaotic Dynamics

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780521476850
• ISBN-10: 0521476852
• Artikelnr.: 22161357

Inhaltsangabe

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.