This is a non-technical survey of chaotic systems. It is based on a one-hour class given largely unchanged to first year undergraduate Physics students, to upper year liberal arts students, and to upp...This is a non-technical survey of chaotic systems. It is based on a one-hour class given largely unchanged to first year undergraduate Physics students, to upper year liberal arts students, and to upper year Physics majors and specialists. The emphasis is on the properties that all chaotic systems exhibit. A secondary emphasis is the fact that most work on these systems is impossible without computing technology.
Much of what impresses us about physics is related to the underlying connections and basic simplicity of the laws we have discovered. The language of physics is precise and well defined because many b...Much of what impresses us about physics is related to the underlying connections and basic simplicity of the laws we have discovered. The language of physics is precise and well defined because many basic systems we study are simple enough that we can perform controlled experiments and discover unambiguous relationships.
