PHY307/607 - Fall 2000

Science and Computers

Chaos, computers and fractals

Professor: S. Catterall, 309 Physics Building, 443-5978, smc@physics.syr.edu.

Simple Java Applets Illustrating Chaos and Fractals

	The Logistic Map The Bifurcation Diagram for the Logistic Map Computing N-cycles The Fractal Dimension of the Logistic Map Dancing on the Sierpinski Triangle Plotting the Henon Attractor Drawing Julia Set Fractals A DLA simulation Jupiter's gravitational pull on Earth Billiard Balls

General Course Info ...

	Whats this Course All About? Course calendar Course Mechanics Current and Past Homeworks Labs Lecture Slides Graduate Projects

Online grades

Graduate students should have completed one of the three possible choices of project by the last day of classes
For possible choices see Graduate Projects

End-semester quiz - Tuesday 5th December

Revision sheet available

Useful Stuff ...

Permanent File Storage
Simple HTML
Adding content to your homepage
Using Java under SUnix
Java - Quick Reference
Simple Unix commands
Pico

This page maintained by Simon Catterall, last updated 23 August, 2000.