PHYS436 INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND CHAOUS II
| Course Code: |
2300436 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
5.0 |
| Department: |
Physics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. ÝSMAÝL RAFATOV |
| Offered Semester: |
Spring Semesters. |
| Prerequisite: |
Set 1: 2300435
|
| The course set above should be completed before taking
PHYS436 INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS AND CHAOUS II. |
Course Content
Hopf bifurcations and spontaneous symmetry breakdown; hysteresis in driven oscillators; coupled oscillators and quasiperiodicity; Lorenz equations; chaos on a strange attractor; one-dimensional maps; Liapunov exponents; universality; renormalization group equations; self similarity and fractals.
