SJSU, CS 286/4, 2R: 05 September
Ralph Abraham, abraham@vismath.org
Topics
- Enrollment now is 12
- Syllabus will be rearranged to facilitate earlier projects
- Correction to 02T:
- Trajectory: the sequence, (x0, x1,...)
- An infinite sequence even if x0 is a fixed point
- Orbit is a set {x0, x1,...}
- Duplications are removed, a singleton set if x0 is a fixed point
- Concepts of complex dynamical systems:
- a dynamical scheme
- a coupling or link from one scheme to another
- a digraph or directed graph
- a complex dynamical scheme or system
- a cellular dynamical scheme or system
Details may be found in
MS#98.
Assignment
From the
VMI Chaos Lab, KL Steps,
download Script 1a, look for attractors in each range of R listed in
Suggestions 1a,
report your findings via email to ralph by 5pm on monday 09 sept 2002
Revised by Ralph Abraham, 06 Sept 2002
|