ABSTRACT
A TOOLBOX IN MATHEMATICA FOR THE SYMBOLIC AND GRAPHICAL STUDY OF
DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
Professor John W. Perram
Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
This talk reports some experiments using Mathematica notebooks integrating
hypertext, symbolic computing and graphics for teaching applied mathematics
in a course on Dynamical Systems. The toolbox, which was built during
the course as a repository of reused code fragments, can be used for rapid
study and visualisation of a large number of dynamical systems, including the
Lotka-Volterra and Holling-Tanner models of competing ecosystems, the
spherical pendulum, the thermodynamics of heat engines, the Lorenz model of
turbulence and many others.
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