Chaos theory Summary

Everything you need to understand or teach Chaos theory.

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Encyclopedia Articles (8)

2,379 words, approx. 8 pages
Chaos Theory CHAOS THEORY. In the Principia (1687), Isaac Newton gave an account of mechanics formulated in terms of precise equations of motion. Given the initial conditions of a system, it was possi... Read more
1,757 words, approx. 6 pages
Patterns of Chaos Overview For centuries, scientists ignored or avoided chaotic, or nonlinear, data. Real but messy results were often ascribed to experimental error or "noise." In the 1... Read more
832 words, approx. 3 pages
Chaos Theory (Meteorological Aspects) Chaos theory attempts to identify, describe, and quantify order in apparently unpredictable and/or highly complex systems (i.e., atmospheric dynamics, weather sys... Read more
1,027 words, approx. 4 pages
Chaos Theory Chaos theory is used to model the overall behavior of complex systems. Despite its name, chaos theory is used to identify order in complex and seemingly unpredictable systems. Chaos theor... Read more
1,175 words, approx. 4 pages
Chaos Theory Chaos theory is the study of non-linear dynamic systems, that is, systems of activities (weather, turbulence in fluids, the stock market) that cannot be visualized in a graph with a strai... Read more
1,096 words, approx. 4 pages
Nonlinear Dynamics Nonlinear dynamics describes systems in which the forces acting on those systems do not increase linearly with quantities such as position, mass or velocity. It also describes syste... Read more
2,452 words, approx. 9 pages
Chaos Theory Chaos theory is a scientific principle describing the unpredictability of systems. Most fully explored and recognized during the mid-to-late 1980s, its premise is that systems sometimes r... Read more
2,130 words, approx. 8 pages
Chaos Theory A physical system has chaotic dynamics, according to the dictionary, if its behavior depends sensitively on its initial conditions, that is, if systems of the same type starting out with ... Read more