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ISBN 0-88318-686-1
Single copy $60.00 High School Site License $150.00 10-copy lab pack $240.00
- "A first rate piece of software, easy to use, meaningful displays. The selections have a wide variety of uses from demonstrating chaos in billiards to allowing advanced mechanics students to observe periodic, aperiodic, and chaotic behavior."
-Philip Gash, California State University - Chico
"New simulations not included in other chaos programs are nice and welcome."
Marco Horbatsch, York University
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Chaos Simulations
Tom Bessoir and Alan Wolf
The Cooper Union
The space circle. Strange attractors. The double pendulum. These may sound like elements in a weird science fiction movie, but they are really examples of nonlinear systems exhibiting chaos. They are all part of Chaos Simulations, a collection of fifteen computer animations that graphically demonstrate the key features of deterministic chaos.
In a sophisticated presentation of chaotic systems, Chaos Simulations displays phenomena in ascending order of mathematical difficulty, from the simple
mapping that defines a logistic model to fractal structures and differential equations. You will learn to recognize the onset of chaos in a variety of
mechanical systems. Other demonstrations include both classical and contemporary examples: Lyapunov exponents, billiards in a stadium, sensitive
dependence, exponential growth, and n-body gravitational motion.
You don't need to be highly familiar with the laws of physics and calculus or the techniques for solving differential equations to appreciate these simulations. The program contains default values for all the parameters, and each animation includes a help screen for easy operation. In addition, a pair of utility programs will capture graphic screen images and store them for later display or printing. 90 pp.
System Requirements:
Our computer system and hardware configuration should be an IBM PC, XT. AT, or PS/2 computer with the following features:
- Hercules, CGA, MCGA, EGA, or VGH color graphics
- Minimum memory of 512 K
- DOS 2.1 or higher
- Math coprocessor (highly recommended)
- Mouse (recommended)
- Printer with graphics capability (recommended)
IBM PC versions of Physics Academic Software programs may not operate on non-IBM personal computers and peripherals.
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ISBN 0-8318686-1 - DOS
| Single copy | $60.00 |
| High School Site License | $150.00 |
| 10-copy lab pack | $240.00 |
© 1991 by Physics Academic Software Publishing Organization. All rights reserved.
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CHAOS SERIES
Computers in Physics
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MORE PICTURES- Quadruple Pendulum
- Space Circle
- 1-D Map Iteration
- Billards in a Stadium
- 2-D Map Iteration
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