CHAOS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT ----------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech PHYS 7123 Fall semester 2001 Predrag Cvitanovic' Lecture 1: 10:05-10:55 Monday, Aug 20 in Howey S106 An overview ----------- That deterministic dynamics leads to chaos is no surprise to anyone who has tried pool, billiards or snooker - that is what the game is about - so we start our course about what is chaos and what to do about it by a game of pinball. This might seem a trifle trivial, but a pinball is to chaotic dynamics what a pendulum is to integrable systems: thinking clearly about what is ``chaos'' in a pinball will help us tackle more difficult problems, such as computing diffusion constants in deterministic gases, or computing the Helium spectrum. Reading: -------- Classical and Quantum Chaos --- www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook chapter 1 appendix A Exercises: ---------- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 - due Tue Aug 28 at 12:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lecture 2: 11:05-11:55 Tue, Aug 21 in Howey S106 Lecture 3: 11:05-11:55 Thu, Aug 23 in Howey S106 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Predrag Cvitanovic' 404/385-2502 office, Howey W501A 404/881-6006 home predrag.cvitanovic@physics.gatech.edu www.cns.gatech.edu/~predrag