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Published December 1980 | public
Journal Article

Molecular Behavior in the Quasi-Periodic and Stochastic Regimes

Abstract

Nonlinear dynamics has been applied to chemistry in a variety of ways, for example, in the analysis of spatial and temporal oscillations in chemical reactions. The equations for the reaction rate at various regions of space are nonlinear in such cases. Several other papers in this volume touch upon this subject. Nonlinear dynamics has also been used to treat collisions between molecules by solving Hamilton's equations for their motion. Many recent experimental data that have become available on collisions and reaction dynamics have been treated in this way.

Additional Information

© 1980 NYAS. Article first published online: 16 Dec 2006. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation. I am pleased to acknowledge helpful discussions with my colleagues, Drs. D. W. Noid, M. L. Koszykowski. M. Tabor, and R. Ramaswamy.

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