Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This software with accompanying user's manual demonstrates physical and biological systems that exhibit chaotic behavior, and features over one hundred interactive displays. Users can change parameters incrementally, view explanations, reveal different views of a phenomenon, halt a dynamic process, change screen colors, choose to display or not display paths, and change the graphics mode. Systems include random and deterministic fractals, cellular automata, anaglyphs, the driven pendulum, nonlinear and Duffing oscillators, and the magnetic quadrupole.
All demonstrations share a common computer interface.
Demonstrations are presented in color, and some of the demonstrations are three dimensional. A display mode allows the animations to be viewed in sequence automatically. An appendix provides an overview of chaotic systems and mathematical background for many of the demonstrations. ENC does NOT distribute this resource. Physics Academic Software is a project of the American Institute of Physics in cooperation with the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers.