Chaotic Dynamics
An Introduction
Published on 12. July 1990
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-521-38258-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this short quantitative introduction, the authors illustrate all the main features of chaos, using the damped, driven pendulum as the primary model. It includes analytic and computer exercises with which the reader may duplicate and expand upon the simulations demonstrated in the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-38258-8 (9780521382588)
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Content
1. Introduction 2. Some helpful tools 3. Visualization of the pendulum's dynamics 4. Toward an understanding of chaos 5. The characterisation of chaotic attractors 6. Concluding remarks. Appendiices: a numerical integration - Runge-Kutta method; program listings; diskette order form.