Solutions Manual
A First Course in
Chaotic Dynamical Systems:
Theory and Experiment
by
Robert L. Devaney
Thomas Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
January 27, 1993Contents
List of Figures
Preface
3 Orbits
4 Graphical Analysis
5. Fixed and Periodic Points
6 Bifurcations
7 The Quadratic Family
9 Symbolic Dynamics
10 Chaos
11 Sarkovskii's Theorem
12 The Role of the Critical Orbit
13 Newton’s Method
14 Fractals
15 Complex Functions
16 The Julia Set
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CONTENTS ii
17 The Mandelbrot Set 209
A Mathematical Notation 229
B Map Index 2arList of Figures
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‘The absolute value function A(s) =
‘The graph of F(z) = 27+ 1 is a parabola with no fixed
points,
The graph of the cubic equation F(z) = 2° ~ 32,
‘The graph of F(z) = 2sinz.
Graph of F(z) = [2-2]... -
‘The doubling map D(z) = 2 mod 1.
‘The second and third iterates of the seting map.
‘The tent map T(z) =1
‘The second and third
fe— 1). .
erates of the tent map.
‘Two cases of linear maps with repelling fixed points. .
‘The graph of F(2) = zh, a typical rociprocal function
A pair of quadratic functions.
The graph of the cubic F(x) =~.
‘The graph ofthe sine function. .
‘The dynamics of two more quadratie functions.
The dynamics ofthe ent map Us)
Phase portraits
‘The straight line (x)
‘The graph of F(z)
‘The graph of F(z) =z"...
‘The exponential function B(z) = 6. |
Orbits of the slide-and-fold dynamical system F(z
Linear maps of the form F(z) =
fixed points.
inear maps with repelling fixed points.
Straight lines parallel to the diagonal.
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Straight lines perpendicular to the diagonal. .
‘The doubling map D(z) = 2x mod 1 :
Examples of neutral fixed points which are weakly attract-
ing on the left and woakly repelling on the right.
‘The graph of F(e) = 1/2, a totally periodic function.
‘The unit circle in the first quadrant
Examples of neutral fixed points which are also inflection
points. Such pins ar either wey rpeng or wally
attracting
Neutral fixed points with a detivative of —1.
Two cases of a neutral fixed point.
‘Two more cases of a neutral fixed point. .
‘The Four Canonical Forms of Neutral
ied Points,
Bifureation behavior in the quadratic family F\(2) = 2+
24d,
Bifureation behavior in the cubic map Fy(z) = At-+ 2°,
‘Typical mombers of the sine family Sp(2) = pain e.
‘Two examples from the exponential family By(z) = M(e*—1).
Every member of the family H_(2) = 2-+ cr? has a neutral
fixed point.
Representatives of the family F.(z)=2 + ex? +24
Bifurcation diagram for the logistic family.
‘The graph of T(2) = 3/2~ [Sx — 3/2].
‘The second iterate of T(2) = 3/2 — |S ~ 3/2
A binary search algorithm for w.
A binary tree of the elements in So.
The quadratic map Q-2(z) = 2? — 2 and its piecewise
linear approximation V(x) = 2|2|—
‘The second and third iterates of V(z'
2a ~ 3
A discontinuous piecewise linear map having only period
3 points. Bieda tee
Two graphs with period 4...
This funetion has a 7-eyele but no 5-cycle.
‘Two graphs with no odd periods. .
A contimuous function with a 3-cycle,
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