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Chaotic Dynamical Systems

Illustration of the ideas of chaos theory via Java applets for three types of dynamical systems: billiards on different shaped tables; a point hopping around a rectangle according to varied rules of motion; and a point moving on the real line according to user-defined rules

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http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/chaos/
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Average: 4.5 (2 votes)
Creator(s): 
Text by Victor J. Donnay; Java applets by Derya Davis, Carin Ewing, Zhenjian He, & Tina Shen
Cataloger: 
Daniel Drucker
Publisher: 
Bryn Mawr website
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Text by Victor J. Donnay; Java applets by Derya Davis, Carin Ewing, Zhenjian He, & Tina Shen
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ddrucker@wayne.edu's picture

Exploration with the applets is fun, even without any mathematical knowledge. Good documentation for the applets is provided.

Anonymous's picture

Good documentation