Complex systems: a physicist's viewpoint

Complex Systems: a Physicist's Viewpoint

In recent years physicists have been deeply interested in studying the behavior of complex systems. The result of this effort has been a conceptual revolution, a paradigmatic shift that has far reaching consequences for the very definition of physics. In the nutshell, physics is an experimental science in which theoretical predictions are compared to experiments. It differs from other sciences ...

Home photovoltaic systems for physicists

© 2008 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0807-030-0 Physicists seldom allow students in their courses to escape without understanding and being able to perform calculations pertaining to energy. Outside of science circles, however, “energy” generally refers not to an overall conserved quantity but rather to the large-scale conversion of stored energy into electricity, locomotion, or ma...

Life as complex systems: Viewpoint from intra-inter dynamics

Basic problems in complex systems are surveyed in connection with Life. As a key issue for complex systems, complementarity between syntax/rule/parts and semantics/behavior/whole is stressed. To address the issue, a constructive approach for a biological system is proposed. As a construction in a computer, intra-inter dynamics is presented for cell biology, where the following five general feat...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Stochastic Processes for Physicists : Understanding Noisy Systems

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