1. Chaos Theory - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Free encyclopedia article describing the basics of the theory. Addresses mathematical, physical and historical aspects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

Chaos theory From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Chaos Theory (disambiguation) A plot of the Lorenz attractor for values r b In mathematics and physics chaos theory describes the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems that may exhibit dynamics that are highly sensitive to initial conditions (popularly referred to as the butterfly effect ). As a result of this sensitivity, which manifests itself as an exponential growth of perturbations in the initial conditions, the behavior of chaotic systems appears to be random . This happens even though these systems are deterministic , meaning that their future dynamics are fully defined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos Contents Overview History Chaotic dynamics Attractors ... edit Overview Chaotic behavior has been observed in the laboratory in a variety of systems including electrical circuits lasers , oscillating chemical reactions fluid dynamics , and mechanical and magneto-mechanical devices. Observations of chaotic behaviour in nature include the dynamics of satellites in the solar system , the time evolution of the magnetic field of celestial bodies population growth in ecology , the dynamics of the action potentials in neurons, and

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4. Chaos At Maryland Research group at the University of Maryland. Includes papers, gallery, database, abstracts, software, bibliography and contact. http://www-chaos.umd.edu/

The idea that many simple nonlinear deterministic systems can behave in an apparently unpredictable and chaotic manner was first noticed by the great French mathematician . Other early pioneering work in the field of chaotic dynamics were found in the mathematical literature by such luminaries as Birkhoff Cartwright Littlewood Levinson ... Smale , and Kolmogorov and his students, among others. In spite of this, the importance of chaos was not fully appreciated until the widespread availability of digital computers for numerical simulations and the demonstration of chaos in various physical systems. This realization has broad implications for many fields of science, and it is only within the past decade or so that the field has undergone explosive growth. It is found that the ideas of chaos have been very fruitful in such diverse disciplines as biology, economics, chemistry, engineering, fluid mechanics, physics, just to name a few. Chaos is a multidisciplinary science, and this is reflected in the fact that the members of the group are affiliated with diverse departments and institutes: Department of Physics Department of Mathematics Department of Electrical Engineering Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology (IPST) ... Applied Math and Scientific Computation (AMSC) Since the mid-1970s, the Chaos Group at Maryland has done extensive research in various areas of chaotic dynamics ranging from the theory of

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6. Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction What exactly is chaos? The name chaos theory comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is http://www.imho.com/grae/chaos/chaos.html

Chaos Theory: A Brief Introduction What exactly is chaos? The name "chaos theory" comes from the fact that the systems that the theory describes are apparently disordered, but chaos theory is really about finding the underlying order in apparently random data. When was chaos first discovered? The first true experimenter in chaos was a meteorologist, named Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he was working on the problem of weather prediction. He had a computer set up, with a set of twelve equations to model the weather. It didn't predict the weather itself. However this computer program did theoretically predict what the weather might be. One day in 1961, he wanted to see a particular sequence again. To save time, he started in the middle of the sequence, instead of the beginning. He entered the number off his printout and left to let it run. When he came back an hour later, the sequence had evolved differently. Instead of the same pattern as before, it diverged from the pattern, ending up wildly different from the original. (See figure 1.) Eventually he figured out what happened. The computer stored the numbers to six decimal places in its memory. To save paper, he only had it print out three decimal places. In the original sequence, the number was .506127, and he had only typed the first three digits, .506. By all conventional ideas of the time, it should have worked. He should have gotten a sequence very close to the original sequence. A scientist considers himself lucky if he can get measurements with accuracy to three decimal places. Surely the fourth and fifth, impossible to measure using reasonable methods, can't have a huge effect on the outcome of the experiment. Lorenz proved this idea wrong.

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10. Chaos chaos is from the Greek word Khaos, meaning gaping void . There are many explanations as to who or what chaos is, but most theories state that it was the http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/chaos.html

Encyclopedia Mythica Search (access key + s) Search for: You are here: Home Areas Mythology Europe ... rate article Send comment References Chaos by Ron Leadbetter Chaos is from the Greek word Khaos, meaning "gaping void". There are many explanations as to who or what Chaos is, but most theories state that it was the void from which all things developed into a distinctive entity, or in which they existed in a confused and amorphous shape before they were separated into genera. In other words, Chaos is or was "nothingness." Though some ancient writers thought it was the primary source of all things, other writers tell of Gaia (Earth) being born from Chaos without a mate, along with Eros and Tartarus . Then from Gaia came Uranus (Heaven or Sky) which gave us Heaven and Earth. Chaos has been described as the great void of emptiness within the universe from which Eros came and it was he who gave divine order and also perfected all things. In later times it was written that Chaos was a confused shapeless mass from which the universe was developed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. For instance, Hesiod's Theogony says that Erebus and Black Night ( Nyx ) were born of Chaos, and Ovid the Roman writer described Chaos as an unordered and formless primordial mass. The first

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Algebra Applied Mathematics Calculus and Analysis Discrete Mathematics ... Interactive Demonstrations Chaos "Chaos" is a tricky thing to define. In fact, it is much easier to list properties that a system described as "chaotic" has rather than to give a precise definition of chaos. Gleick (1989, p. 306) notes that "No one [of the chaos scientists he interviewed] could quite agree on [a definition of] the word itself," and so instead gives descriptions from a number of practitioners in the field. For example, he quotes Philip Holmes (apparently defining "chaotic") as, "The complicated aperiodic attracting orbits of certain, usually low-dimensional dynamical systems." Similarly, he quotes Bai-Lin Hao describing chaos (roughly) as "a kind of order without periodicity." It turns out that even textbooks devoted to chaos do not really define the term. For example, Wiggins (1990, p. 437) says, "A dynamical system displaying sensitive dependence on initial conditions on a closed invariant set (which consists of more than one orbit) will be called chaotic ." Tabor (1989, p. 34) says, "By a chaotic solution to a deterministic equation we mean a solution whose outcome is very sensitive to initial conditions (i.e., small changes in initial conditions lead to great differences in outcome) and whose evolution through phase space appears to be quite random." Finally, Rasband (1990, p. 1) says, "The very use of the word 'chaos' implies some observation of a system, perhaps through measurement, and that these observations or measurements vary unpredictably. We often say observations are chaotic when there is no discernible regularity or order."

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20. Physics 161: Topics Introduction To chaos by Michael Cross. An online course at Caltech. http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/Chaos_Course/Outline.html

Chaos on the Web Physics 161: Introduction to Chaos Topics Part 1: Introduction Lorenz Model : an introduction to chaos The Pendulum : the language of dynamical systems Nonlinear Oscillators : quasiperiodicity and frequency locking One Dimensional Maps Two Dimensional Maps Part 2: Diagnostics Power Spectrum Lyapunov Exponents Information and Entropy Dimensions ... Multifractals Part 3: Application to Experiment Reconstructing the Attractor Experimental Systems Part 4: Bifurcations Bifurcation Theory Bifurcations in Maps with a Quadratic Maximum Part 5: Period Doubling Route to Chaos Pictorial Renormalization Group Renormalization Group Theory Advanced Topics Part 6: Quasiperiodicity, Chaos and Frequency Locking Driven Pendulum and the 2d Circle Map 1d Circle Map Universal Breakdown from Quasiperiodicity to Chaos Ruelle and Takens Theorem Part 7: Further Topics Mathematical Chaos Predicting Chaos Controlling Chaos Applications of Chaos ... [Return to Home Page] Last modified Monday, March 6, 2000 Michael Cross

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