Dynamics: numerical explorations. Accompanying computer program Dynamics 2. Coauthored by Brian R. Hunt and Eric J. Kostelich. With 3 1/2'' DOS Diskette. (Q1377169): Difference between revisions

[For a review of the first edition (1994) see Zbl 0805.58007.] The program `Dynamics 2' (and the accompanying handbook) is a tool to help visualize the properties of discrete and continuous dynamical systems, including the plotting of attractors, basins of attraction, the computing of straddle trajectories, the search for all periodic orbits of a specified period, bifurcation diagrams, the search for stable and unstable manifolds, the calculation of dimensions and Lyapunov exponents, etc. The program requires an IBM-compatible PC running MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95, or a UNIX workstation with \(X\) server. It provides about 40 maps and differential equations to choose from (e.g., the logistic map, the Lorenz system or Chua's circuit), and -- new to this version -- one can insert one's own equations.