Everyday Computing and the Internet -- HKU CCST9003 Common Core

In order to make informed decisions in this information age, everyone needs to have an efficient way to sift through and evaluate the myriads of information that is available through the internet. The ultimate objective of this course (HKU CCST9003) is to help students develop a “computational” state of mind for everyday events. We will also discuss intensively the societal impacts of computing technologies on our daily life.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Chaotic systems

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Chaotic systems?

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In simple terms, a chaotic system is one which is highly sensitive to initial conditions, and whose seemingly random behaviors can be actually described by deterministic equations. For more details, please visit:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory (for a general introduction)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map (for more details about a chaotic system defined by a very simple recurrence equation); Reference [1] in http://www.eee.hku.hk/~ykwok/CCST9003/reading-others.html also has an excellent discussion

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AnonymousSeptember 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM
thanks !
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digital signature FAQSeptember 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Thanks for providing the definition of chaotic system that is one which is highly sensitive to initial conditions, and which behaves randomly and can be actually described by deterministic equations. Thanks for sharing the links with details.
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