Elsevier

Computers & Graphics

Volume 19, Issue 5, September–October 1995, Pages 755-778
Computers & Graphics

Causes and effects of chaos

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Abstract

Most nonlinear dynamics and chaos literature is written either for readers of popular science magazines or for advanced mathematicians. This paper gives a broad introduction to this interesting and rapidly growing field at a level that is between the two. The graphical and analytical tools used in the literature are explained, a brief outline of the current theory is given, and that theory is illustrated with several examples: an electronic circuit, a chemical reaction and a system of satellites in the solar system.

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