CHAOS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT -------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech PHYS 7224 fall 2007 Predrag Cvitanovic' Lecture 2: 1:35-2:55 Thu 23 in Howey S204 Trajectories ------------ We start out by a recapitulation of the basic notions of dynamics. Our aim is narrow; keep the exposition focused on prerequsites to the applications to be developed in this text. I assume that you are familiar with the dynamics on the level of introductory texts such as Strogatz, and concentrate here on developing intuition about what a dynamical system can do. It will be a coarse brush sketch - the full description of all possible behaviors of dynamical systems is anyway beyond human ken. Reading: -------- Chaos: Classical and Quantum --- ChaosBook.org chapters 2, 3