Chaotic Definition and 65 Threads

--- THREE MAGNETS (N-dipole-body problem) --- imagine 3 bar magnets sitting on a table randomly spaced. they are fixed and can not translate, only rotate around their centers , it is 2D situation. there is no gravity, no friction and only forces are magnetic forces. here is a picture where "x"...

Is it accurate that general relativity may predict nonlinear but not chaotic spacetime?

the random number we used in computer, can be accessed form some mathematical formula. and i heard that the chaotic data is just similar with random noise. if we just consider the data, one from compute, the other from some real process,can we distinguish it? thx for every reply!:smile:

Many people consider the weather as a system which exhibits chaotic behaviors ('the butterfly effect' introduces weather as an example for chaos). But what are the reasons for that? Why are we so sure that weather is chaotic? Is it because people can't manage to predict it a long time in...

Okay, I am doing grade 12 physics in australia and I was wondering about systems of planets interacting with each others gravity and whether this could cause chaos with orbits. If all the other planets in out solar system effect one another, does there ever end up a point where the clockwork...

i'm an undergraduate student decided to pursue a thesis on chaotic dynamics. would it be feasible to use the student population of my college department as an entity which will exhibit chaos? i need help, feel free to PM me or mail me: reysagana@gmail.com thanks.

Most of us have experienced flowing freely down the highway, then for no apparent reason find ourselves slowed to a creep. Sometimes, I recall, this arises from a chaotic effect. How can the automotive public actively avoid traffic jams of this nature, those caused by chaotic patterns in driving?

What type of circuit should one set up in order to induce chaotic outputs? My current research is pointing me towards a diode resonator circuit (resistor, inductor, diode in series) any ideas on that model or improvements from other research?

My UC Berkeley Master's Thesis in physics education is attached. It has to do with students' conceptions of the limits of prediction in chaotic systems. Feel free to read it and to let me know what you think. Take Care, Jed Stamas Cambridge, MA jed underscore stamas at yahoo dot com

This is a rather silly post but a friend of mine posed this question to me, as a challange and as simple as I thought the answer would be I have been unable to solve it. Maybe someone can help. What is the name of a chaotic particle? His field is fluid dynamics but I just can't seem to...

Are there any systems that we know of that operate in a purely chaotic, none deterministic manner? I mean in an absolute sense, as opposed to "more chaotic than...". I have two other criteria that I'd like to apply; 1.) systems that we don't suspect may be being determined by something...

How many of you think the chaos theory is possible?(Or vice versa?) I believe it's foundations are correct, but the theory itself is ludicrous. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Can spin foams become chaotic, if so is their an arrow that points in a preferred direction

Does anyone know anything concrete about the application of nonlinear chaotic dyamical systems to psychology? I have come to find out that there is a substantial amount of research being done on this. I read some articles today where people were trying to apply this to dysfunctional families...

This paper: http://www.edpsciences.org/papers/aa/pdf/press-releases/aa0959.pdf ...press release: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/pr-08-04.html suggests that the kinematic heating (statistical dispersion of velocities in the perpendicular plane to the galactic plane) of...