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This chapter briefly describes why the nonlinear phenomena are important to engineers. We show that during the investigations of nonlinear systems one can observe phenomena which are not known from the linear theory.
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Kapitaniak, T. (1998). Response of a Nonlinear System. In: Chaos for Engineers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97719-0_1
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