Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering / Steven H. Strogatz.

"This textbook is aimed at newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos, especially students taking a first course in the subject. The presentation stresses analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors."--Provided by publisher.

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Overview; 1.0 Chaos, Fractals, and Dynamics; 1.1 Capsule History of Dynamics; 1.2 The Importance of Being Nonlinear; 1.3 A Dynamical View of the World; Part I One-Dimensional Flows; 2 Flows on the Line; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 A Geometric Way of Thinking; 2.2 Fixed Points and Stability; 2.3 Population Growth; 2.4 Linear Stability Analysis; 2.5 Existence and Uniqueness; 2.6 Impossibility of Oscillations; 2.7 Potentials; 2.8 Solving Equations on the Computer; Exercises for Chapter 2.

3 Bifurcations3.0 Introduction; 3.1 Saddle-Node Bifurcation; 3.2 Transcritical Bifurcation; 3.3 Laser Threshold; 3.4 Pitchfork Bifurcation; 3.5 Overdamped Bead on a Rotating Hoop; 3.6 Imperfect Bifurcations and Catastrophes; 3.7 Insect Outbreak; Exercises for Chapter 3; 4 Flows on the Circle; 4.0 Introduction; 4.1 Examples and Definitions; 4.2 Uniform Oscillator; 4.3 Nonuniform Oscillator; 4.4 Overdamped Pendulum; 4.5 Fireflies; 4.6 Superconducting Josephson Junctions; Exercises for Chapter 4; Part II Two-Dimensional Flows; 5 Linear Systems; 5.0 Introduction; 5.1 Definitions and Examples.

5.2 Classification of Linear Systems5.3 Love Affairs; Exercises for Chapter 5; 6 Phase Plane; 6.0 Introduction; 6.1 Phase Portraits; 6.2 Existence, Uniqueness, and Topological Consequences; 6.3 Fixed Points and Linearization; 6.4 Rabbits versus Sheep; 6.5 Conservative Systems; 6.6 Reversible Systems; 6.7 Pendulum; 6.8 Index Theory; Exercises for Chapter 6; 7 Limit Cycles; 7.0 Introduction; 7.1 Examples; 7.2 Ruling Out Closed Orbits; 7.3 Poincaré?Bendixson Theorem; 7.4 Liénard Systems; 7.5 Relaxation Oscillations; 7.6 Weakly Nonlinear Oscillators; Exercises for Chapter 7

8 Bifurcations Revisited8.0 Introduction; 8.1 Saddle-Node, Transcritical, and Pitchfork Bifurcations; 8.2 Hopf Bifurcations; 8.3 Oscillating Chemical Reactions; 8.4 Global Bifurcations of Cycles; 8.5 Hysteresis in the Driven Pendulum and Josephson Junction; 8.6 Coupled Oscillators and Quasiperiodicity; 8.7 Poincaré Maps; Exercises for Chapter 8; Part III Chaos; 9 Lorenz Equations; 9.0 Introduction; 9.1 A Chaotic Waterwheel; 9.2 Simple Properties of the Lorenz Equations; 9.3 Chaos on a Strange Attractor; 9.4 Lorenz Map; 9.5 Exploring Parameter Space; 9.6 Using Chaos to Send Secret Messages.

Exercises for Chapter 910 One-Dimensional Maps; 10.0 Introduction; 10.1 Fixed Points and Cobwebs; 10.2 Logistic Map: Numerics; 10.3 Logistic Map: Analysis; 10.4 Periodic Windows; 10.5 Liapunov Exponent; 10.6 Universality and Experiments; 10.7 Renormalization; Exercises for Chapter 10; 11 Fractals; 11.0 Introduction; 11.1 Countable and Uncountable Sets; 11.2 Cantor Set; 11.3 Dimension of Self-Similar Fractals; 11.4 Box Dimension; 11.5 Pointwise and Correlation Dimensions; Exercises for Chapter 11; 12 Strange Attractors; 12.0 Introduction; 12.1 The Simplest Examples; 12.2 Hénon Map.

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