1 Overview and Basic Concepts -- 2 Nonlinear Dynamics and Deterministic Chaos -- 3 Billiard Systems -- 4 Gravitational Billiards: The Wedge -- 5 The Double Pendulum -- 6 Chaotic Scattering -- 7 Fermi Acceleration -- 8 The Duffing Oscillator -- 9 Feigenbaum Scenario -- 10 Nonlinear Electronic Circuits -- 11 Mandelbrot and Julia Sets -- 12 Ordinary Differential Equations -- A System Requirements and Program Installation -- B General Remarks on Using the Programs.
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Chaos: A Program Collection for the PC presents an outstanding selection of executable programs with introductory texts to chaos theory and its simulation. Students in physics, mathematics, and engineering will find a thorough introduction to fundamentals and applications in this field. Many numerical experiments and suggestions for further studies help the reader to become familiar with this fascinating topic. The second edition includes one CD-ROM, the executable programs are Windows 95 compatible.