Physics-471/571: NonLinear Dynamics
Winter Quarter 2014/2015

Instructor: Prof. Robert Gilmore
Physics Department
Office: 12-918
Email: robert.gilmore@drexel.edu
Phone: (215)~895-2779
Office hours: Daily, after 14:00
Class schedule: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 - 12:20 in 12-919.

[PDF] Information and Syllabus

[PDF] Historical Outline of Developments in Nonlinear Dynamics, from E. A. Jackson, Perspective of Nonlinear Dynamics 1

[PDF] Problem Set #1

[PDF] Fractal Basins for Newton's Method applied to f(x)=x^3-1=0

[PDF] Marc Lefranc

[PDF] Problem Set #2

[Text] Simple Codes

[PDF] Problem Set #3

[PDF] Problem Set #4

[PDF] Problem Set #5

[PDF] Problem Set #6 (or #7 if you think I can't count)

[PDF] Solar System Resonances (history.nasa.gov/SP-345/ch8.htm)

[PDF] A. M. Molchanov: The resonant structure of the Solar System. The Law of Planetary Distances, Icarus 8, 203-215 (1968)

[PDF] Renu Malhotra: Orbtal resonances and chaos in the Solar System)

[PDF] Problem Set #9

[PDF] Catastrophe theory, Part 1

[PDF] Catastrophe theory, Part 2

[PDF] Simple Overview

[PDF] Introduction

[PDF] Fractals

[PDF] Logistic Map

[PDF] Flows

[PDF] Periodic Orbits

[PDF] Circle Maps

[PDF] Branched Manifolds

[PDF] Families of Strange Attractors

[PDF] Quantizing Chaos

[Text] Scalar Data File \# 1

[Text] Scalar Data File \# 2

[Text] Scalar Data File \# 3

[Text] Scalar Data File \# 4

[Text] Scalar Data File \# 5

[Text] Weekly Data File (5 columns)

Last update: March 6, 2015