MAT335H1: Fractal, Chaos and Dynamical Systems

FIRST REVIEW SESSION! Monday 14 at 2pm. ROOM: BA 6183.

Reference book: A first course in chaotic dynamical systems. R. Devaney

Marking scheme:

MIDTERM. March 20. At class time

NOTE ABOUT MARKING SCHEME: FINAL NOTE= MAXIMUM { [0.1*H+0.4*M+ 0.5*F], [0.4*M+ 0.6*F]}

Office Hours:

Homework 1. For January 31.

Homework 2. For February 28.

Tuffy machine's movie More about Tuffy machine. Examples of mechanical systems A Billiard simulation If you run basic, good programs to check out Gallery of fractals Celestial mechanics Celestial mechanics. 3 bodies Celestial mechanics-Choregraphies: here or here	APPLETS- HELP TO LEARN Chaotic maps Mandelbrot set Some others: orbit diagram, iteration of nonlinear functions, fractals, Mandelbrot set: math.bu.edu/DYSYS/applets math.bu.edu/DYSYS
	Literature and chaos The Lottery of Babylon. Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of Forking Paths. Jorge Luis Borges
	Dynamical systems at UofT What people do in dynamical systems A nice place for research