An exploration of chaos: motion that is paradoxically predictable yet random,aided by elementary mathematics, numerous figures, and computer animations (available on a companion CD). The history, mechanism, and practical consequences of this fascinating phenomenon are explained in terms accessible to a motivated high school student. INDICE: 1: Chaos Everywhere; 2: Galileo Galilei --- Birth of a New Science; 3: Isaac Newton --- Dynamics Perfected; 4: Celestial Mechanics --- Clockwork Universe; 5: Pendulum --- Linear and Nonlinear; 6: Josephson Effect --- Synchronization; 7: Chaos Forgets the Past; 8: Chaos Takes a Random Walk; 9: Chaos Makes Noise; 10: Edward Lorenz --- Butterfly Effect; 11: Chaos Comes of Age; 12: Tilt-A-Whirl --- Chaos at the Amusement Park; 13: Billiard-Ball Chaos --- Atomic Disorder; 14: Iterated Maps --- Chaos Made Simple; 15: State Space --- Going with the Flow; 16: Strange Attractor; 17: Fractal Geometry; 18: Stephen Smale --- Horseshoe Map; 19: Henri Poincaré --- Topological Tangle; 20: Chaos Goes to Work
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959458-0
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha Publicación: 04/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés