Nature is inherently noisy and nonlinear. It is noisy in the sense that
all macroscopic systems are subject to the fluctuations of their
environments and also to internal fluctuations. It is nonlinear in the
sense that the restoring force on a system displaced from equilibrium
does not usually vary linearly with the size of the displacement. To
calculate the properties of stochastic (noisy) nonlinear systems is in
general extremely difficult, although considerable progress has been
made in the past. The three volumes that make up Noise in Nonlinear
Dynamical Systems comprise a collection of specially written
authoritative reviews on all aspects of the subject, representative of
all the major practitioners in the field. The third volume deals with
experimental aspects of the study of noise in nonlinear dynamical
systems. It covers noise-driven phenomena in superfluid helium, liquid
crystals, lasers and optical bistability as well as the solution of
stochastic equations by digital simulation and analogue experiment.