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This chapter briefly describes why nonlinear phenomena are important to engineers. We show that during investigations of nonlinear systems one can observe phenomena which are not familiar from the linear theory.
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Kapitaniak, T. (2000). Response of a Nonlinear System. In: Chaos for Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57143-5_1
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