Chsos State Exam Test Questions and Answers

Chsos State Exam Test Questions and Answers The State of the system - CORRECT ANSWER-Complete physical description description, what system is doing at a particular instant The minimum amount of information that must be provided to give a complete description of the system at a particular point in time Expressed in state variables such as x, y, z which represent properties of a system Trajectory - CORRECT ANSWER-The specification of a single time evolution - seeing how the state of a system changes with time starting from a specific set of conditions Times is continuous (analog), uses real numbers Orbit - CORRECT ANSWER-The specification of a single time evolution - seeing how the state of a system changes with time starting from a specific set of conditions Time is discrete (digital), uses integers Map - CORRECT ANSWER-The set of all possible orbits, i.e. keeping the parameters fixed, but varying initial conditions Flow - CORRECT ANSWER-The set of all possible trajectories, i.e. keeping the parameters fixed but varying initial conditions