2007/04/04 by J. O. McCaslin, McCaslin, J. O., P. R. Broussard +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Chaos control and synchronization #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #physics.ed-ph #physics.gen-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0704.0484
11 pages, 9 figures. To be published in American Journal of Physics
arxiv created 2007/08/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We measured the correlation of the times between successive flaps of a flag for a variety of wind speeds and found no evidence of low dimensional chaotic behavior in the return maps of these times. We instead observed what is best modeled as random times determined by an exponential distribution. This study was done as an undergraduate experiment and illustrates the differences between low dimensional chaotic and possibly higher dimensional chaotic systems.