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Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
Anti-Newtonian dynamics
Date: Tuesday, September 22nd
Time: 12:05 pm
Place: 4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
Speaker: Clint Sprott, UW Department of Physics
Abstract: This talk describes a world in which Newton's first and second laws hold, but Newton's third law takes the form that the forces between any two objects are equal in magnitude and direction. The dynamics for such a system exhibit curious and unfamiliar features including chaos for two bodies in two spatial dimensions. This talk is an introduction to a more detailed talk to be given on October 6th by Vladimir Zhdankin.

Ref: J. C. Sprott, Am. J. Phys. 77, 783-787 (2009)(http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pubs/paper339.pdf)
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