Chaos on the Web

Physics 161: Introduction to Chaos

Demonstrations

• Odes

  Studies coupled ordinary differential equations.

  • Instructions
    
  • Diagnostics
  
  

• 1DMap

  Studies the iteration of one-dimensional maps.

  • Instructions
    
  • Equations
    
  • Diagnostics
  
  

• 2DMap

  Studies the iteration of two-dimensional maps.

  • Instructions
    
  • Equations
  
  

• Scalemap

  Investigates the period doubling route to chaos.

  • Instructions
  
  

• Chua

  Simulates the dynamics of an electronic circuit.

Read this for a discussion of the applets, problems, source code etc.