Power of Mathematical Thinking: From Newton's Laws to Elections and the Economy

Expansion and Recurrence - Newtonian Chaos! (1x7)

: 01, 2010

While a two-body system is relatively simple to analyze with Newton's laws of motion, the situation with three or more bodies can become chaotically unpredictable. Discover how this n-body problem has led to progressively greater insight into the chaos of "two's company, but three's a crowd."