260143 VO Deterministic Chaos I (2005W)
Deterministic Chaos I
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Di 15:00-17:00, Kl. Hs. d. Inst. f. Experimentalphysik, 2. Stock
Beginn 4.10.2005
Beginn 4.10.2005
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This course gives an introduction into nonlinear dynamical processes with examples taken from physics, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology,
geology, biology, and mathematics. It iprovides also the basis for a follow-up course (From dynamical chaos to molecular chaos in Statistical Physics II, SS04) on nonequilibrium processes far from equilibrium. Nonlinear processes appear everywhere in nature. They
belong to the fastest-growing fields in science. The topics discussed include: solitons versus chaos, one-dimensional maps, bifurcations,
renormalization and universality, intermitteny and 1/f noise, dynamical chaos in systems of differential equations, linear stability analysis,
stable and unstable manifolds, dissipative systems, fractals, Lyapunov instability.