Chaos. Part 1 / Steven Strogatz.

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9781598034509

Información de publicación:

Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2008]

Descripción física:

2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 148 pages ; 19 cm).

Nota general:

Course no. 1333.

Lectures 1-12 of 24 lectures. 30 minutes per lecture.

Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Course guidebook is included with part 1.

DVD.

Contenido:

Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The chaos revolution -- lecture 2. The clockwork universe -- lecture 3. From clockwork to chaos -- lecture 4. Chaos found and lost again -- lecture 5. The return of chaos -- lecture 6. Chaos as disorder--the butterfly effect -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Picturing chaos as order--strange attractors -- lecture 8. Animating chaos as order--iterated maps -- lecture 9. How systems turn chaotic -- lecture 10. Displaying how systems turn chaotic -- lecture 11. Universal features of the route to chaos -- lecture 12. Experimental tests of the new theory.

Síntesis:

Chaos theory," according to Dr. Steven Strogatz, Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, "is the science of how things change." It describes the behavior of any system whose state evolves over time and whose behavior is sensitive to small changes in its initial conditions.

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Chaotic behavior in systems

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Teaching Company

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