Physics
Video Lectures - Chaos
Publisher: Teaching Company, 2009, 24pp, 1st ed.
It has been called the third great revolution of 20th-century physics, after relativity and quantum theory. But how can something called chaos theory help you understand an orderly world? What practical things might it be good for? What, in fact, is chaos theory? "Chaos theory," according to Dr. Steven Strogatz, Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell University, "is the science of how things change." It describes the behavior of any system whose state evolves over time and whose behavior is sensitive to small changes in its initial conditions.
Lectures
| 1. | The Chaos Revolution |
| 2. | The Clockwork Universe |
| 3. | From Clockwork to Chaos |
| 4. | Chaos Found and Lost Again |
| 5. | The Return of Chaos |
| 6. | Chaos as Disorder—The Butterfly Effect |
| 7. | Picturing Chaos as Order—Strange Attractors |
| 8. | Animating Chaos as Order—Iterated Maps |
| 9. | How Systems Turn Chaotic |
| 10. | Displaying How Systems Turn Chaotic |
| 11. | Universal Features of the Route to Chaos |
| 12. | Experimental Tests of the New Theory |
| 13. | Fractals—The Geometry of Chaos |
| 14. | The Properties of Fractals |
| 15. | A New Concept of Dimension |
| 16. | Fractals Around Us |
| 17. | Fractals Inside Us |
| 18. | Fractal Art |
| 19. | Embracing Chaos—From Tao to Space Travel |
| 20. | Cloaking Messages with Chaos |
| 21. | Chaos in Health and Disease |
| 22. | Quantum Chaos |
| 23. | Synchronization |
| 24. | The Future of Science |