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Courses offered Fall 2009

Current Course

PHYS 194 - Behavior of Complex Systems

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010

Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
A LBD 04:00 PM  - 05:20 PM W   257 Loomis Laboratory 

Web Page http://www.howhy.com/phys194/
Official Description Exploration of systems with simple rules that nevertheless exhibit complex behavior. Lecture demonstrations on fractal growth, chaos, catastrophes, self-assembly, lightning, turbulence, explosions, and human rhythms. Simple computer models which exhibit regular, irregular, symmetric, and self-similar patterns and dynamics. Dynamics of isolated and coupled complex systems and mathematical tools for quantifying complex behavior.
Hours 1 hours.