Reading: NDAC, Sec. 12.0-12.3, 9.3, and 10.5.
Topics:

1. Review last lecture.
2. Chaotic mechanisms: Stretch and fold
3. Baker’s map
4. Cat map (and stretch demo)
5. Henon map: stretch-fold and self-similarity
6. Roessler attractor branched manifold
7. Dot spreading: Roessler and Lorenz ODEs
8. Lyapunov characteristic exponents (LCEs)
9. Time to unpredictability
10. Dissipation rate
11. Attractor LCE classification
12. Chaos defined

Reading for next meeting: NDAC, Sections 10.5-10.7.