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Double Pendulum Chaos Visualization

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Introduction

What is chaos? Chaos is seen a crowded room, a shattered glass and a uncontrollable dog. At its deepest level, chaos is disorder and unpredictability.

In mathematics and physics, chaos means something very specific

  • sensitive to starting conditions
  • non-repeating

These two ideas mean that chaotic problems are impossible to solve exactly and difficult to solve approximately. But they're very important problems to work on because chaos theory is the reason that things like the weather, the stock market and fluid flow is so hard to predict. If we can get better at predicting hurricanes or stock market crashes, we can do a better job preparing for them.