Physics 221A | Spring 2017

Course Handouts:

This page was last updated 06/07/2017


Course Handouts:

Course Syllabus - posted 03 April 2017

Topics - posted 03 April 2017

Project Information - posted 03 April 2017

Supplemental Handouts:

Hamiltonian Chaos

Basics of Hamiltonian Chaos - posted 03 April 2017

Chaos,Chirikov,KAM - posted 03 April 2017

Hamilton Stochasticity - posted 03 April 2017

Geometry and Measure of Attractors-Mostly Strange

Strangness of Attractors: Grassberger and Procaccia - posted 06 April 2017

Dimension of Attractors: Farmer,Ott - posted 06 April 2017

Mapping Model of Passive Scalar Convection:Ott,Antonsen - posted 06 April 2017

Measuring Information Dimension - posted 14 April 2017

Lyapunov Exponents and Entropy

Falkovich on Statistical Physics and Entropy - posted 14 April 2017

Procaccia on Estimating K Entropy - posted 14 April 2017

MNR on K Entropy for Magnetic Fields - posted 14 April 2017

Synchronization and the Kuramoto Transition

Review of Synch and Kuramoto Transition - posted 24 April 2017

Strogatz on Kuramoto Transition - posted 24 April 2017

Glass on Synch in Physiology - posted 24 April 2017

Envelope Theory and Patterns in Convection

Review of patterns near threshold-Cross,Hohenberg - posted 11 May 2017

Envelope Theory-Newell and Whitehead - posted 11 May 2017

Convection Patterns-Normand,Pomeau,et al - posted 11 May 2017

Flux Driven Convection-Chapman,Proctor - posted 11 May 2017

Secondary Circulation-Krishnamurti and Howard - posted 11 May 2017

Model of Secondary Circulation-Howard ,Krishnamurti - posted 11 May 2017

Swift-Hohenberg Model - posted 15 May 2017

Phase Diffusion -Pomeau and Manneville - posted 31 May 2017

Phase Dynamics of Convection Rolls-Cross ,Newell - posted 31 May 2017

Fronts

Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis-Turing (original paper) - posted 31 May 2017

Fronts -van Saarloos - posted 31 May 2017

Hodgkin and Huxley on Neuron Pulses - posted 07 June 2017

Fitzhugh on FN Model,Bistable Fronts - posted 07 June 2017