PHY 411 Mechanics and Chaotic Dynamics

Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite: PHY 235

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, chaotic dynamics and routes to chaos, Fourier spectrum and Poincaré maps, Lyapunov exponents, strange attractors and fractal dimensions, information dimension and Kolmogorov entropy, numerical tests for chaotic behavior.

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