CHAOS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
- Module code: MP471
- Credits: 5
- Semester: 2
- Department: THEORETICAL PHYSICS
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Fixed points, limit cycles and strange attractors. Iterated maps. Quadratic maps: Period doubling, Quasi periodicity, devil''s staircase, Farey tree. Universality. Intermittency route to chaos. Hamiltonian systems. Lyapunov exponents, Kolmogorov- Sinai entropy. Concept of Dimension. Fractals and multifractals. Brownian motion. |
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