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nonlinear

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A system in which the output is not a uniform relationship to the input.


nonlinear - (Scientific computation) A property of a system whose output is not proportional to its input. For example, a transistor has a region of input voltages for which its output voltage is found by multiplying the input voltage by the gain of the transistor. Outside this region though, the transistor behaves non-linearly, meaning that it does not obey this simple equation. The behaviour of a system containing non-linear components is thus harder to model and to predict.

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New York), the producer of 28 STM journals, including 11 open access titles and 16 subscription journals, will begin the publication of "differential Equations and Nonlinear Mechanics" with an issue in early 2006.
In this paper, we introduce nonlinear large-signal scattering (S) parameters, a new type of frequency-domain mapping that relates incident and reflected signals.
Chaos, or nonlinear dynamics, is a young science that is shedding light on an apparent inner order to seemingly random phenomena.
 
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