Subject: Chaotic demonstrations                        
                                                                              
   Q12a: How can you make a chaotic oscillator?                               
   A12a: Two references are:                                                  
                                                                              
    1. T. S. Parker and L. O. Chua, Chaos: a tutorial for engineers,          
Proceedings IEEE 75 (1987), pp. 982-1008.                                     
    2. New Scientist, June 30, 1990, p. 37.                                   
                                                                              
   Q12b: What are laboratory demonstrations of chaos?                         
   A12b: Robert Shaw at UC Santa Cruz experimented with chaos in dripping     
taps. This is described in:                                                   
                                                                              
    1. J. P. Crutchfield, Chaos, Scientific American 255, 6 (Dec. 1986), pp.  
38-49.                                                                        
    2. I. Stewart, Does God Play Dice?: the Mathematics of Chaos, B.          
Blackwell, New York, 1989.                                                    
                                                                              
   Two references to other laboratory demonstrations are:                     
    1. K. Briggs, Simple Experiments in Chaotic Dynamics, American Journal of 
Physics 55, 12 (Dec 1987), pp. 1083-1089.                                     
    2. J. L. Snider, Simple Demonstration of Coupled Oscillations, American   
Journal of Physics 56, 3 (Mar 1988), p. 200.                                  
                                                                              
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information.                                                                  
                                                                              


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