PHY100S - The Magic of Physics - Class 15 - Monday March 6, 2006

Announcements

• This Friday March 10 is the last day to see April Seeley in MP129 about your mark on Pre-Class Quiz #5
• On Monday March 13 class will begin with Pre-Class Quiz #7. It will be on Chapter 13.

Pre-Class Quiz #6

The button access the questions and answers for Pre-Class Quiz #6 which was given in today's class.

Homework #7

The button accesses Homework #7. This assignment is due in the Drop Box for you tutor by 5 PM on Monday March 13.

Today's Class

We began and almost finished our discussion of chaotic systems. We talked about:

• The three-body gravitaitonal problem.
• The logistic map
• The Lorenz attractor

We used three Flash animations. Although they are linked to from the Course Notes for Chaos, as a convenience here are more links to those animations:

The three-body gravitational problem.
The logistic map
The Lorenz attradtor

We agreed to continue our discussion of fractional dimensionality next class. A small document on this is linked to from the Course Notes for Chaos, but here is another link.

Here is a link to today's Journal.