Order and chaos: are they contradictory or complementary ?
- 28 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in European Journal of Physics
- Vol. 23 (2), 119-122
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0143-0807/23/2/304
Abstract
A classical rotor subject to deterministic and random forces shows a broad spectrum of motion including deterministic, deterministic chaos, random and, as shown here, erratic. This simple example serves to illustrate one of the main achievments of twentieth-century physics, which has established that deterministic and random phenomena complement rather than contradict each other.Keywords
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