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Separatrix : A dominatrix who separates clients from all their possessions.

I have installed ngspice (RPi-5), but haven't got around to experimenting with it. However, it's possible to do thought experiments and refine one's ideas while doing other life stuff. This has led me to discard the idea that there should be a momentary increase in disspiation exactly while the...

Yes, that is what I was vaguely trying to articulate. The waveform in baluncore's post is interesting because superficially it looks like a square wave with ringing after each rise/fall. However, the ringing is a growth rather than a decay. This has to mean either (a) the energy in that...

Can you test the hypothesis that there should be a current spike in the positive resistance during the jump from one attractor to another?

Re. the discussion about 'reality' of this simulation. If I understand correctly, the beauty of this class of systems is that it is very robust against what would usually be called simulation errors. Of course the quantitative behavior is in any case highly dependent on initial conditions. But...

Is the energy dissipated, or is the energy transferred to another element than the one whose voltage is plotted?

Dr Chua reminsces about the invention of his circuit: https://www.chaotic-circuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/THE-GENESIS-OF-CHUAS-CIRCUIT.pdf Page devoted to it (includes an interactive Javascript simulation page and how-to-build info): https://chuacircuits.com/

Yes, I guess I was framing my question like, "Is a needle more like a burger or more like a soprano?" One could make a case for both by stretching each analogy enough. :smile:

Got the join right away; got the tables thing only the next day.

I have been trying to understand intuitively why Chua's circuit should want to toggle between modes as it does. The aim is to internalize this concept the way a Steve Mould or a 3Blue1Brown might help me do :smile: Which is closer to the truth: (A) Rectification of the signal around one...

Thank you for taking the time to post a detailed reply. It's always good to have a sober, grounding antidote against AI's tendency to amplify one's own biases. ("Your brilliant intuition is spot on as usual" :smile:) This, despite sometimes pretending to the AI that I was merely "asking in order...

That reminds me of the sad tale of someone who built a career and a small enterprise, based on his deep knowledge of "Terminate and Stay Resident" ( TSR) programs for MS-DOS. You can imagine what happened when Windows 3.1 was released.

I am 65 now, and I never had a life from my clock-stopping days till today. :smile:

I just learned, furthermore, that my case could perhaps be an example of "Oscillation Death" rather than "Amplitude Death". Or an example of some third category where asymmetry is baked into the system to start with. For other spergy folk among you: https://share.google/aimode/n1yOozhgBa28FkIbp...

As a teenager, I developed this spergy skill of slowing down a classic balance wheel type alarm clock by rotating it clockwise and anticlockwise in the palm, finally 'whispering' it down to a dead stop. Today I Learned that a similar phenomenon is called "Amplitude Death" in the field of...