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The extra materials, notes, Maple and MATLAB programs, and links for this couses are now found at these sites:

• Chaos Wiki - When you open this page, a jsMath window appears. Open Control Panel, select Printer Fonts and the window eventually goes away.
• MATLAB Introduction - This is a tutorial for MATLAB and contains extra information on using MATLAB to visualize nonlinear systems.
• LaTeX Introduction - This is a tutorial for using LaTeX to typset mathematical expressions.
• A Second Course in Differential Equations Book

Other Links

• Oscillations

  • The Simple Harmonic Oscillator

  • Simple Pendulum

  • The Pendulum Lab

  • Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

  • Background and Theory for LRC Circuits

  • The Simple, but Nonlinear Pendulum Article

  • Nonlinear Pendulum Applet

  • Coupled ODEs

  • Double Pendulum

• Plotting
  • Phase Portraits
  • Phase Plane for Simple Systems - Maple
  • Interactive Differential Equations
• Solving Linear Systems - Summary of Matrix Methods - R. Herman
• Bifurcations in Maple - HTML
• Duffing Equation Applet
• The Lorenz Attractor - in 3D

Some Additional Items

Review for Exam I
Review for Exam III
Crumpled Paper

MATLAB IFS Files

• Deterministic IFS for Triangles tri2.m
• "Chaos" as an IFS IFSChaos.m
• Grid Generator for Block IFS blocks2.m
• A More compact IFS Code MyIFS.m

For Fun: Warp Dr. Herman

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