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The noisy oscillator: the first 100 years, from Einstein until now

By Moshe Gitterman

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2005
ISBN
9812565124, 9789812565129, 9789812703224
Open Library ID
OL17190453M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
729 kB (745994 bytes)
Pages
159\159
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book contains comprehensive descriptions of stochastic processes described by underdamped and overdamped oscillator equations with additive and multiplicative random forcing. The latter is associated with random frequency or random damping. The coverage includes descriptions of various new phenomena discovered in the last hundred years since the explanation of Brownian motion by Einstein, Smoluchovski and Langevin, such as the shift of stable points, noise-enhanced stability, stochastic resonance, resonant activation, and stabilization of metastable states. In addition to many applications in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, economics and sociology, these discoveries have clarified the deep relationship between determinism and stochasticity, which turns out to be complimentary rather than contradictory, with noise playing both constructive and destructive roles.

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