UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Winter 2005

Agenda for Meeting #3

• 2A, Ralph (15 minutes): Logistics
• 2B, Ralph (15 minutes):
  • Bifucation concept
  • Describe software for chaos lab homework
• 2C, Spot

HW for Meeting #4

• Short essay on Ch. 2, the Bethels of Scotland
• Read Ch. 3, Algebra
• Chaos exercizes (hand in lab notes) with applet: Response diagram, logistic map family
• Suggestions:
  • Experiment with small ranges of the control parameter by changing the values of R-min and R-max with the sliders.
  • Try to find as many periodic windows as you can.

References

• Spot