| Lectures on Nonlinear Mechanics and Chaos Theory Contributor(s): Albert W Stetz (Author) |
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ISBN: 9813141352 ISBN-13: 9789813141353 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Chaotic Behavior In Systems - Science | Mechanics - General - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 531 |
| LCCN: 2016008403 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 140 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
