NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS

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Prerequisites: PHY 310 and PHY 320 or instructor permission. Introduction to nonlinear mechanics in one, two and three dimensions. Bifurcations, phase planes, fixed points, limit cycles, fractals, chaos and strange attractors. Applications to many areas of science such as weather prediction, lasers, vibrational instabilities, and population variations of predators and prey. Offered occasionally.