CHAOS, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT NOTE: in Howey N209 ----------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech PHYS 7123 Fall semester 2001 Predrag Cvitanovic' Lecture 11: 11:05-12:55 Thu Sep 20 2001 in Howey N209 Averaging Trace formulas -------------- Reading: -------- Classical and Quantum Chaos --- www.nbi.dk/ChaosBook you can print a hard copy of (current version!) chapter 6 - Averaging chapter 7 - Traces (somebody has to make the hard but unpopular decisions: the old chapter 2 was too long and unwieldly, so I have rewritten it and split it in two, hence the chapters in the webbook have been renumbered, so last week's chapter 5 is this week's chapter 6, etc.) Exercises: ---------- (use course homepage version of Sep 21 or newer) 6.1 - A contracting baker's map 6.2 - Expectation valu of a vector observable (a) verify (b) verify (c) compute the third derivative (d) compute the fourth derivative assuming that the mean computed in part (a) vanishes, =0 due Thu Sept 27 at 12:55 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Predrag Cvitanovic' 404/385-2502 office, Howey W501A 404/881-6006 home predrag.cvitanovic@physics.gatech.edu www.cns.gatech.edu/~predrag