An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics

• Part I: Overview ; 1. Introduction - A Bit of History ; 2. Fundamentals ; 3. Apparatus ; 4. Chemical Oscillations: Synthesis ; 5. Chemical Oscillations: Analysis ; 6. Waves and Patterns ; 7. Computational Tools ; Part II: Special Topics ; 8. Complex Oscillations and Chaos ; 9. Transport and External Field Effects ; 10. Delays and Differential Delay Equations ; 11. Polymer Systems ; 12. Coupled Oscillators ; 13. Biological Oscillators ; 14. Turing Patterns ; 15. Stirring and Mixing Effects ; Appendix I ; Demonstrations ; A1.1 The Briggs-Rauscher Reaction ; A1.2 The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction ; A1.3 BZ Waves ; A1.4 A Propagating pH Front ; Appendix 2 ; Experiments for the Undergraduate Lab ; A2.1 Frontal Polymerization ; A2.2 Oscillations in the Homogeneous Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction ; A2.3 Unstirred BZ System: "Measuring Rate Constants with a Ruler" ; Bibliography

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