Chaos and Poincare'


 

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   References

Peter Millet, James Schreve, and Peter Coxeter, "Phase-Space Orbits and the Ping-Pong Ball Impact Oscillator", TPT, Vol. 44, # 2, Feb. 2006, p. 92.

Donald H. Esbenslade, Jr., "Computer-Specific Initial Conditions and Chaos", TPT, Vol. 32, # 1, Jan. 1994, p. 40.

Max Dresden, "Chaos: A New Scientific Paradigm - or Science by Public Relations?" Part I, TPT, Vol. 30, # 1, Jan. 1992, p. 10.

Max Dresden, "Chaos: A New Scientific Paradigm - or Science by Public Relations?" Part II, TPT, Vol. 30, # 2, Feb. 1992, p. 74.

 

Todd Timberlake, "A Computational Approach to Teaching Conservative Chaos", AJP, Vol. 72, # 8, Aug. 2004, p. 1002.

Robert DeSerio, "Synchronous Analog I/O for Acquisition of Chaotic Data in Periodically Driven Systems", AJP, Vol. 72, # 4, April 2004, p. 553.

Robert DeSerio, "Chaotic Pendulum: The Complete Attractor", AJP, 71, (3), March 2003, p. 250.

Randall D. Peters, "Chaotic Pendulum Based on Torsion and Gravity in Opposition", AJP, 63, (12), Dec. 1995, p. 1128.

 

A. Douglas Stone, "Einstein's Unknown Insights and the Problem of Quantizing Chaos," Physics Today, August 2005, p. 37.



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