{"id":8584,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_dynamical_systems\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:17","slug":"non-linear_dynamical_systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_dynamical_systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-linear dynamical systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Systems whose behavior is not predictable over long periods of time, either from its initial conditions or from its history of inputs. &nbsp;The equations of motion for such a system include threshold values that when breached result in sudden discontinuous changes to qualitatively different states. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"bifurcation\">Bifurcation<\/a>, <a href=\"catastrophe_theory\">Catastrophe theory<\/a>, <a href=\"chaos\">Chaos<\/a>, <a href=\"complex_system\">Complex system<\/a>, <a href=\"complexity\">Complexity<\/a>, <a href=\"control_parameter\">Control parameter<\/a>, <a href=\"determinism\">Determinism<\/a>, <a href=\"dissipative_system\">Dissipative system<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamical_system\">Dynamical system<\/a>, <a href=\"dynamics\">Dynamics<\/a>, <a href=\"equifinality\">Equifinality<\/a>, <a href=\"fractals\">Fractals<\/a>, <a href=\"isomorphism\">Isomorphism<\/a>, <a href=\"linear_dynamical_systems\">Linear dynamical systems<\/a>, <a href=\"non-linear_dynamics\">Non-linear dynamics<\/a>, System <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Systems whose behavior is not predictable over long periods of time, either from its initial conditions or from its history of inputs. &nbsp;The equations of motion for such a system include threshold values that when breached result in sudden discontinuous changes to qualitatively different states. &nbsp; See Bifurcation, Catastrophe theory, Chaos, Complex system, Complexity, Control &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/non-linear_dynamical_systems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Non-linear dynamical systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}