LECTURES ON NONLINEAR MECHANICS AND CHAOS THEORY

by Albert W Stetz

Overview

This elegant book presents a rigorous introduction to the theory of nonlinear mechanics and chaos. It turns out that many simple mechanical systems suffer from a peculiar malady. They are deterministic in the sense that their motion can be described with partial differential equations, but these equations have no proper solutions and the behavior they describe can be wildly unpredictable. This is implicit in Newtonian physics, and although it was analyzed in the pioneering work of Poincar

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813141377
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/17/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	140
File size:	8 MB

Table of Contents

Lagrangian Dynamics; Canonical Transformations; Abstract Transformation Theory; Canonical Perturbation Theory; Introduction to Chaos; Computational Projects;