Physics002a - 1st Year Seminar

Chaos, Fractals, Complexity, Emergence and Self-Organization: How Nature Works

Professor John Boccio

• Description (PDF file)
• Syllabus (PDF file)

Notes

• Chaos Notes (PDF file)
• Fractals Notes (PDF file)
• Learning MATLAB Notes (PDF file)
• Glossary of Chaos terms (PDF file)

Chaos and Fractals Websites and Notes

• Chaos: A Pictorial Introduction
• Fractal Dimension Calculator
• Bourke on Fractals
• Chaos Theory
• Bourke Fractal Intro
• Chaos and Fractals
• Physics 123 Notes
• Wikipedia on Chaos Theory
• Chaos Hypertextbook
• Physics 307 Notes
• More Chaos Notes
• More Fractals Notes - NEAT Pictures
• Picture of chaotic pendulum
• Simultaneous picutere time-series/phase-portrait
• Pendulum and Phase Portrait - options
• Sensitivity
• More Sensitivity
• Neat return map applet
• 1-dimensional maps
• Lots of useful stuff (possibly for papers)
• Movie of Sensitivity

Assignments

• P002A_Assignment_1 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_2 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_3 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_4 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_5 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_6 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_7 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_8 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_9 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_10 (PDF file)
• P002A_Assignment_12-13 (PDF file)

Complexity Notes and Websites

• Self-Organized Criticality Slides (PDF file)
• Modeling avalanches (PDF file)
• Thinking complex (PDF file)
• Self-organizing traffic lights (PDF file)
• Questions on complexity (PDF file)
• Emergent traffic jams (PDF file)
• Forest fire model (PDF file)
• Articles from Nature magazine (PDF file)
• SOC in blackouts (PDF file)
• Complex adaptive systems slides 1 (PDF file)
• Complex adaptive systems slides 2 (PDF file)
• Complex adaptive systems slides 3 (PDF file)
• Complex adaptive systems and SOC lecture slides (PDF file)
• Holland Echo model 1 (PDF file)
• Holland Echo model 2 (PDF file)
• Holland Echo model 3 (PDF file)
• Model for mutation (PDF file)
• Punctuated equilibria (PDF file)
• Scott Gilbert article (PDF file)
• SOC 1 (PDF file)
• SOC 2 (PDF file)
• SOC 3 (PDF file)
• Punctuated equilibrium and criticality (PDF file)
• SOC and deterministic rules (PDF file)
• Punctuated equlibrium and paleontology (PDF file)
• Models of social systems Slides (PDF file)
• Emergent complexity (PDF file)
• Emergence of species (PDF file)
• Contingency and criticality (PDF file)
• Evidence of SOC (PDF file)
• Predictability (PDF file)
• Rice Piles (PDF file)
• Landslides and Sandpiles (PDF file)
• Avalanche dynamics (PDF file)
• Sandpile implications (PDF file)
• Self-Organized Criticality Slides (PDF file)
• Gould Library (PDF file)
• The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stasis (PDF file)
• Evolutionary Origin (PDF file)
• Kuperberg Article (PDF file)

Bak-Sneppen Papers - Punctuated Evolution

• Bak-Sneppen Paper (PDF file)
• Ref 01_Kellogg (PDF file)
• Ref 02_Raup (PDF file)
• Ref 03_Raup (PDF file)
• Ref 05_Raup (PDF file)
• Ref 06_Sepkoski (PDF file)
• Ref 07_Gould (PDF file)
• Ref 13_Alverez (PDF file)
• Ref 14_Bak (PDF file)
• Ref 15_Bak (PDF file)
• Ref 19_Flyvbjerg (PDF file)
• Ref 20_Bak (PDF file)
• Ref 21_Wright (PDF file)
• Ref 22_Lande (PDF file)
• Ref 28_Bak (PDF file)
• Ref 29_Flyvbjerg (PDF file)
• Ref 30_Pacsuski (PDF file)
• Ref 33_deBoer (PDF file)
• Bak-Sneppen Model Description (PDF file)
• Bak-Sneppen Model Implications (PDF file)
• Punctuated equilibriun and criticality (PDF file)
• Punctuated evolution model(PDF file)
• SOC in complex systems (PDF file)

Matlab Codes

• barnsley.m
• dla.m
• dlacu5.m
• dlafix1.m
• fern.m
• fixpt.m
• FractalFern.m
• loglyap.m
• logmap1.m
• logmapall.m
• logmapblow.m
• lorenz0.m
• lorenz4.m
• mandelbrot1.m
• osc1.m
• phsp.m
• pred2.m
• pred4.m
• pred5.m
• pred6.m
• quadplot1.m
• returnmap.m
• rkf2.m
• rkg2.m
• rkf4.m
• rkg4.m
• rkf5.m
• rkg5.m
• rkf6.m
• rkg6.m
• root3.m
• rootthree.m
• rosc.m
• three.m

Probability Games

• Quincunx (JAVA applet)
• Plinko (JAVA applet)
• Balldrop (JAVA applet)

Chaos for Java

• IAChaos.exe.zip (Windows Application)
• OSXChaos.zip (Mac OSX Application)
• CFJChaos.zip (JAVA applet)

Game of Life on Mac OS X

• Game_of_Life_Mac.zip (Mac OSX Application)
• Golly-1.2-mac.zip (Mac OSX Application)
• LifeLab_Mac_4.4.zip (Mac OSX Application)

AVIDA Artificial Life Simulations

• avida_ED.zip (Mac OSX Application)
• avida2.6.2.zip (Mac OSX UNIX/Terminal Application)