Description
Book Synopsis
The properties of the harmonic oscillator with random frequency or/and random damping formed the content of the first edition. The second edition includes hundreds of publications on this subject since 2005. The noisy oscillator continues to be the subject of intensive studies in physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences.The new and the latest type of a stochastic oscillator has also been considered, namely, an oscillator with random mass. Such model describes, among other phenomena, Brownian motion with adhesion, where the molecules of the surrounding medium not only randomly collide, but also stick to the Brownian particle for some (random) time, thereby changing its mass. This edition contains two new chapters, eight new sections and an expanded bibliography. A wide group of researchers, students and teachers will benefit from this book.
Table of Contents
Deterministic and Random Oscillators; White and Color Noise; Brownian Motion; Overdamped Harmonic Oscillator with Additive Noise; Overdamped Harmonic Oscillator with Multiplicative Noise; Overdamped Single-Well Oscillator; Overdamped Double-Well Oscillator; Harmonic Oscillator with Additive Noise; Nonlinear Oscillator with Additive Noise; Harmonic Oscillator with Random Frequency; Harmonic Oscillator with Random Damping; Linear vs Quadratic Noise; Nonlinear Oscillator with Multiplicative Noise; Harmonic Oscillator with Random Mass; In the Future.
