Eidson, John C. with Charles H. Braden and Dale F. Schultz, "Period Doubling and Approach to Chaos in a Simple Context", 1985
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Studies of deterministic systems which apparently exhibit chaotic behavior are attracting much interest in disciplines ranging from physics to economics. A particularly interesting case of a simple electrical network has been studied recently in the physics literature with the objective of isolating minimal characteristics essential to chaotic behavior. A system dynamics formulation has been given to the numerical simulation of this system. Instructional laboratory exercises comprising both observations on the electrical circuit and computer simulation of the circuit are being implemented for the upper level undergraduate and graduate students.