The chaotic pendulum [[electronic resource] /] / Moshe Gitterman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788556703321
• Autore: Gitterman M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J. ; ; London, : World Scientific, c2010
• ISBN: 1-283-14494-8; 9786613144942; 981-4322-01-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (140 p.)
• Disciplina: 003/.857
• Soggetti: Pendulum; Chaotic behavior in systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-138) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Contents; List of Equations; Chapter 1 Pendulum Equations; Chapter 2 Deterministic Chaos; Chapter 3 Pendulum subject to a Random Force; Chapter 4 Systems with Two Degrees of Freedom; Chapter 5 Conclusions; Bibliography; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Pendulum is the simplest nonlinear system, which, however, provides the means for the description of different phenomena in Nature that occur in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, communications, economics and sociology. The chaotic behavior of pendulum is usually associated with the random force acting on a pendulum (Brownian motion). Another type of chaotic motion (deterministic chaos) occurs in nonlinear systems with only few degrees of freedom. This book presents a comprehensive description of these phenomena going on in underdamped and overdamped pendula subject to additive and multip