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*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1855036    G. P. Berman and F. M. Izrailev "The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem: Fifty years of progress",  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science '''15''' 015104 (2005)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1855036    G. P. Berman and F. M. Izrailev "The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem: Fifty years of progress",  Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science '''15''' 015104 (2005)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72995-2 "The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: A Status Report" Lecture Notes in Physics '''728/2008''' Springer (2008)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72995-2 "The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: A Status Report" Lecture Notes in Physics '''728/2008''' Springer (2008)]
*[http://dx.doi.org/10.1511/2009.78.214 Mason A. Porter, Norman J. Zabusky, Bambi Hu, and David K. Campbell "Fermi, Pasta, Ulam and the Birth of Experimental Mathematics", American Scientist '''97''' pp. 214-221 (2009)]
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*[http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fermi-Pasta-Ulam_nonlinear_lattice_oscillations Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations] on Scholar''pedia''
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The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment [1] consisted of a one dimensional system composed of 64 particles, whose ends were fixed, and the particles were connected by a selection of forces; quadratic, cubic, and "broken"-linear. Their main finding was that there was an apparent lack of equipartition of energy amongst the available degrees of freedom, even after as many as 10,000 cycles on their fast electronic computing machine (MANIAC I).

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