 Quasiperiodic motion (source code)

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= Quasiperiodic motion
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= Quasiperiodic orbit
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A quasiperiodic orbit on a torus has angular coordinates $\theta(t)=\theta(0)+\omega t$ modulo $2\pi$. It is <periodic orbit>[periodic] exactly when the nonzero frequencies are commensurate; rationally independent frequencies produce a dense orbit.

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