CHAPTER 9

DROPS, DYNAMICS
And DAISIES
AUSTRIA, CHRISTINE DENACHEL R.
JOSE, PATRICIA ANNE B.
REUTA, JIRK ZYDELL B.
TORRES, MIKAELA NICHOLE D.
 INTRODUCTION
“The art of simplicity is a puzzle of
complexity” – Douglas Horton
In this Chapter, Ian Stewart gives three
examples of the way apparently “simple
phenomena in nature derived from stupefying
complexity.
3 Case Study:
 Water Drop

 Dynamics

 Daisies (Flower Pattern)

 WATER DRIPPING FROM TAP
 Inthis case, we will not talk about the timing
of successive drops, instead we look at the
shape the drops takes up as it detaches from
the end of the tap.
 Our common idea about the shape of a water
drop, Is the “classic” cartoon like teardrop
shape, But it is NOT TRUE.
 WATER DRIPPING FROM TAP
 In 1990, the mathematician Howell Peregrine and
colleagues at Bristol University photographed the
process and discovered that it is far more
complicated but also far more interesting than
anybody would ever imagine.
 POPULATION DYNAMICS
 The use of that phrase reflects a long tradition of
mathematical modeling in which the changes in
populations of interacting creatures are
represented by differential equations.
 In 1994, Jacquie McGlade, David Rand, and Howard
Wilson, of Warwick University, carried out a
fascinating study that bears on the relation
between more biologically realistic models and the
traditional equations.
 DAISIES
The numbers that arise in plants-not just for petals but
for all sorts of other features-display mathematical
regularities, They form the beginning of the so-called
Fibonacci series, in which each number is the sum of
the two that precede it.

FIBONACCI FIBONACCI
SERIES PATTERN