ANYONE CAN BUILD CHUA'S CIRCUIT: HANDS-ON-EXPERIENCE WITH CHAOS THEORY FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Chaos is a physical and mathematical phenomenon discovered by E. Lorenz in 1963. The first simple electronic implementation had been invented by L. O. Chua in 1984. This electronic circuit, called Chua's circuit was designed for ease of implementation. In the current brief we will explain chaos by building Chua's chaotic circuit using our Chua's circuit kit with inexpensive components. For readers without access to an oscilloscope, this paper proposes the use of a laptop/Personal Computer to capture the voltage waveforms generated from the circuit and plot the waveforms on a computer screen using a virtual oscilloscope software provided by the authors. The kit is available, the software is downloadable.