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Consider a collection of ``bees'' which are initially localized in a
circle of unit radius centered about the origin. At each time step, each
bee moves at random with equal probability to one of four possible
directions north, south, east, or west.
- Implement a program to simulate the motion of the bees, and describe
the qualitative nature of their motion.
- Suppose that each bee is placed at random within a circle of unit
radius and is given an initial velocity in one of the four directions.
This means that at each time interval, a bee takes an additional step in
the direction of the original velocity. Is the motion of the bees changes
from part 1?
- Compute
,
,
and
as a function of
the number of steps . The average is over all the bees. Also
compute the mean square displacement defined as
What is the qualitative dependence of these quantities on the number of
steps? Compute the -dependence of , the maximum displacement
of the bees as step . Is the behavior of qualitatively
different that
for all ?
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Adrian E. Feiguin
2004-06-01