ON THE CHAOTIC BEHAVIOR OF HARMONICALLY DRIVEN OSCILLATOR

M. O. Olayiwola (Nigeria) and A. W. Gbolagade (Nigeria)

Received October 10, 2007

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Keywords and phrases: visualization, chaos, phase space, bifurcation.