An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Waves, Patterns, and Chaos

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