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Are there real life applications for Hausdorff dimensions, specifically crack formations?
I was curios about Hausdorff dimensions. They seem to neatly describe rough surfaces. So I was wondering if there are common applications of Hausdorff dimensions in things like complicated friction ...
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Ljapunov exponent of driven damped pendulum
I have written a computer simulation of the driven damped pendulum, pretty much as the one shown here, only that I did it Python. Next, I have found some parameters for which the pendulum behaves ...
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What can be the smallest chaotic system?
As I am talking about 'smallest' can I expect that it should be a quantum system? I understand that we use quantum chaos theory instead of perturbation theory when the perturbation is not small. For ...
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Is that true that real quantum chaos doesn't exist?
I read several books and papers on quantum chaos, to my understanding they all emphases that the quantum chaos does not really exist because the linearity of the Schrodinger equation. Some works were ...
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Staying in orbit - but doesn't any perturbation start a positive feedback?
I am not a physicist; I am a software engineer. While trying to fall asleep recently, I started thinking about the following.
There are many explanations online of how any object stays in orbit. The ...
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Does chaos theory occur in quantum mechanics? Or in any non-newtonian physics?
Does chaos theory occur in quantum mechanics? Or in any non-newtonian physics? Apart from perhaps thermodynamics?
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Fractal Cosmology and Misner's Chaotic Cosmology
I have a question pertaining to the ideas behind the considered homogeneity and isotropic nature of the universe (at a grand scale) versus the theory of a chaotic and anisotropy structure of the ...
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Are a quantum mechanical system a chaotic (yet deterministic) system?
The title is slightly misleading. I really want to know if the randomness and probabilities observed in quantum mechanics is really just the result of a chaotic (yet deterministic) system.
If it is ...
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Reference for the predictability of rigid body dynamics
I'm looking for a reference, journal article, paper, etc. that supports the idea that classical mechanics, in particular rigid body dynamics, is largely predictable.
A view coming from the background ...
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Chaos is predictable?
I'm reading a book of computational physics [1] where the driven nonlinear pendulum is studied in deep. This is the equation used in the book:
$$
\frac{d^2\theta}{dt^2} = -\frac{g}{l}\sin\theta - ...
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A good, concrete example of using “chaos theory” to solve an easily understood engineering problem?
Can anyone suggest a good, concrete example of using "chaos theory" to solve an easily understood engineering problem?
I'm wondering if there is a an answer of the following sort:
"We have a high ...
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The ideal trampoline
Suppose we have a mass attached to the top of an ideal (linear and massless) spring oriented vertically in a uniform gravitational field, and on top of that mass there is another mass resting on it. ...
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How and why can random matrices answer physical problems?
Random matrix theory pops up regularly in the context of dynamical systems.
I was, however, so far not able to grasp the basic idea of this formalism. Could someone please provide an instructive ...
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Current scope of Chaos theory and non-linear dynamics?
I am a physics undergrad interested in stuff like dynamical systems, chaos theory etc. Is there ongoing research in these fields? I am talking about pure research and not applications to things like ...
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spectral eigenvalue staircase and quantum system
in a d-dimensional system of Quantum physics , does the Eigenvalue staircase
$ N(E)= \sum_{E_{n}\le E} 1 $ determine ALL the properties of Quantum System ??
for example, let us assume that the ...
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SOC and the butterfly effect
We knows that in a critical system and self organized criticality we have long range interaction due power law decay in correlation. Is this fact equivalent to the butterfly effect?
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Bifurcation of convection of fluid in container, when adding temperature
I once read a paper, in which:
a fluid in a container was heated from below,
after reaching temperature $T_1$, a circular motion (convection) was clearly distinguishable, in form of cylinder,
after ...
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Is chaos theory essential in practical applications yet?
Do you know cases where chaos theory is actually applied to successfully predict essential results? Maybe some live identification of chaotic regimes, which causes new treatment of situations.
I'd ...
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What is the Quantum equivalent of chaos on a classical system? (if there's any)
This is a question that bugging me around for some time now.
It is not clear to me what is the meaning of a chaos if we consider a quantum system.
What is the mathematical formalism (or the quantum ...
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Does the “Andromeda Paradox” (Rietdijk–Putnam-Penrose) imply a completely deterministic universe?
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk–Putnam_argument
Abstract of 1966 Rietdijk paper:
A proof is given that there does not exist an event, that is not already in the past for ...
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Renormalizing Chaos: Transition in a Logistic Map
I am currently trying to understand the analysis of a logistic-like map $$f_\mu (x) = 1-\mu x^2$$
after section 2.2 in "Renormalization Methods" by A. Lesne.
As I understand it, the physical ...
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What is the highest energy position for a double pendulum? And for which energy positions is it chaotic?
Math/physics teachers love to break out the double pendulum as an example of chaotic motion that is very sensitive to initial conditions. I have some questions about specific properties:
For a ...
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Fractals in physics. Suggest book titles
I'm looking for some good books on Fractals, with a spin to applications in physics. Specifically, applications of fractal geometry to differential equations and dynamical systems, but with emphasis ...
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Is the orbit of earth around the sun chaotic?
The orbit of the earth seems to be very predictable. But as it is a many-body problem having sun, earth, moon, jupiter and so on, is it really that stable or will it start making strange movements ...
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Randomness, Chaos, Quantum mechanical probability functions
Can someone explain these 3 concepts into a unified framework.
Randomness : Randomness as seen in a coin toss, where the system follows known and deterministic (at the length and scale and precision ...
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Question on the stability of the solar system
One of the pertinent questions about many body systems that causes me much wonder is why the solar system is so stable for billions of years. I came across the idea of "resonance" and albeit an useful ...
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'A' butterfly effect
If a butterfly did not flap its wings some time ago, but instead decided to slide for that millisecond, can this cause a tornado on the other side of the earth if we just wait long enough? Does this ...
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Chaos and quantum physics: How many ways can a bonfire burn?
I'm interested in the extent to which quantum physical effects are seen at a macroscopic level. I might get some of the physics wrong, but I think I'll get it close enough that I can ask the ...
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Chaos and continuous flow
What needs to be the case for a dynamical system with a continuous flow to exhibit chaos? It looks like 1D systems with a continuous flow can't exhibit chaos. Are two dimensions enough or do you need ...
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Chaos theory and determinism
My professor in class went a little over chaos theory, and basically said that Newtonian determinism no longer applies, since as time goes to infinity, no matter how close together two initial points ...
