Chaotic Dynamics
An Introduction
Published on 29. June 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-521-38897-9 (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
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-38897-9 (9780521388979)
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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.