Types of Nonlinear Behaviors
- Indeterminism – the behavior of a system cannot be predicted.
- Multistability – alternating between two or more exclusive states.
- Aperiodic oscillations – functions that do not repeat values after some period (otherwise known as chaotic oscillations or chaos).
- Amplitude death – any oscillations present in the system cease due to some kind of interaction with other system or feedback by the same system.
- Solitons – self-reinforcing solitary waves
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