PHY307/607 - Fall 2001

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
Extra Lab - NO lecture Tuesday Nov 27 - instead meet in the cluster for a lab
Final Quiz - Tuesday 4th December
Revision Sheet

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

Useful Stuff ...

This page maintained by Simon Catterall, last updated 25 November, 2001.