A Lab Based Course in Nonlinear Dynamics
Student Projects

Contents

Course Info
Laboratory
Student Comments
Future Developments

 Last three weeks of the quarter with limited additional lab access.

Sample Projects:

  • Chaotic Waterwheel
  • Double Pendulum
  • Terminal Velocity using Different Shapes in Different Fluids
  • Heartbeat (oscillating chemical reaction) with Mercury
  • Computer Control of Chaos
  • Non-linear magnetic oscillator
  • Buckling beam
  • "Love Affairs" on Computer
  • Computer generation of fractals
Chaotic Waterwheel
Double Pendulum

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presented at the Winter National meeting of the AAPT
Session CI, 8 Jan 1998, New Orleans, LA