Chaos theory

A concise yet comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of solid mechanics, including solved examples, exercises, and homework problems.

Discusses the use of manipulators on satellites and the dynamics of satellites carrying robotic manipulators and of planetary rovers.

A concise yet comprehensive treatment of the fundamentals of solid mechanics, including solved examples, exercises, and homework problems.

This essential book is the first comprehensive exposition in the area of optimal low-thrust orbit transfer using non-singular variables.

A treatment of low-speed aerodynamics, covering both theory and computational techniques, first published in 2001.

The author presents deterministic chaos from the standpoint of theoretical computer arithmetic, leading to universal properties described by symbolic dynamics.

This comprehensive book presents, in depth, what engineers need to know about modelling rotorcraft aeromechanics.

This comprehensive book presents, in depth, what engineers need to know about modelling rotorcraft aeromechanics.

The author presents deterministic chaos from the standpoint of theoretical computer arithmetic, leading to universal properties described by symbolic dynamics.

For anyone interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats, insects and air vehicles (MAVs).

For anyone interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats, insects and air vehicles (MAVs).

Now reissued by Cambridge University Press, this sixth edition covers fundamental aerodynamics using examples, applications and exercises.

Now reissued by Cambridge University Press, this sixth edition covers fundamental aerodynamics using examples, applications and exercises.

Aerodynamic design of aircraft presented with applications, using CFD software and featuring tutorials, exercises, and mini-projects.

Aerodynamic design of aircraft presented with applications, using CFD software and featuring tutorials, exercises, and mini-projects.

There is an explosion of interest in dynamical systems in the mathematical community as well as in many areas of science.

There is an explosion of interest in dynamical systems in the mathematical community as well as in many areas of science.

Differential Equations in Engineering: Research and Applications describes advanced research in the field of the applications of differential equations in engineering and the sciences, and offers a sound theoretical background, along with case studies.

Differential Equations in Engineering: Research and Applications describes advanced research in the field of the applications of differential equations in engineering and the sciences, and offers a sound theoretical background, along with case studies.

A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment, Second EditionThe long-anticipated revision of this well-liked textbook offers many new additions.

A First Course in Chaotic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experiment, Second EditionThe long-anticipated revision of this well-liked textbook offers many new additions.

For engineers, applied scientists and students working in flow-induced instability and vibration in wind and ocean engineering and the power industry.

Surveys topics in the theory and applications of dynamical systems subject to random shocks.

An advanced undergraduate and graduate textbook on the theory of nonlinear dynamical systems.

State-of-the-art coverage of modern computational methods for the analysis and design of beams Analysis and Design of Elastic Beams presents computer models and applications related to thin-walled beams such as those used in mechanical and aerospace designs, where thin, lightweight structures with high strength are needed.

Transonic flow occurs around moving objects as they approach and cross the sound barrier.

Chaos is the idea that a system will produce very different long-term behaviors when the initial conditions are perturbed only slightly.

Chaos is the idea that a system will produce very different long-term behaviors when the initial conditions are perturbed only slightly.

When a leaf falls on a windy day, it drifts and tumbles, tossed every which way on the breeze.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the end of World War II, a band of aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barriernicknamed "e;The Demon"e; by pilots.

Aircraft Flight provides accurate physical, rather than mathematical, descriptions of the principles of aircraft flight.

An investigation into how machines and living creatures fly, and of the similarities between butterflies and Boeings, paper airplanes and plovers.

The goal of this third edition of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering is the same as previous editions: to provide a good foundation - and a joyful experience - for anyone who'd like to learn about nonlinear dynamics and chaos from an applied perspective.

The goal of this third edition of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering is the same as previous editions: to provide a good foundation - and a joyful experience - for anyone who'd like to learn about nonlinear dynamics and chaos from an applied perspective.

Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention.

What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes?

This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop.

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence.

This book is based on proceedings from a February 2004 Santa Fe Institute workshop.

When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts--indeed, so great that the sum far transcends the parts and represents something utterly new and different--we call that phenomenon emergence.

Just a few decades ago, chemical oscillations were thought to be exotic reactions of only theoretical interest.

A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world-from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking range of topics from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty.

A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world-from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking range of topics from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty.

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions.

This book provides the reader with an elementary introduction to chaos and fractals, suitable for students with a background in elementary algebra, without assuming prior coursework in calculus or physics.

The best parts of physics are the last topics that our students ever see.

Chaos exists in systems all around us.

Covering a broad range of topics, this text provides a comprehensive survey of the modelling of chaotic dynamics and complexity in the natural and social sciences.