Cascade of period doubling bifurcations and large stochasticity in the motions of a compass
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- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Journal de Physique Lettres
- Vol. 42 (24) , 537-539
- https://doi.org/10.1051/jphyslet:019810042024053700
Abstract
We propose a very simple mechanical device, consisting of a compass placed in a periodic oscillating field, which renders the observation of large scale stochasticity in Hamiltonian systems possible. We show that this device also exhibits a cascade of period doubling bifurcations. We determine experimentally the threshold of the first doublingsKeywords
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