The Jiles-Atherton (J-A) model is applied to the problem of describing
the dynamics of a nonlinear circuit driven by a square wave voltage s
ource and comprising a linear resistor and capacitor in series with a
nonlinear inductor, whose core displays saturation and hysteresis. The
presence of hysteresis is shown to increase the order of the circuit
by one. Period-multiplication and chaos are observed and excellent agr
eement is obtained between experiment and simulation.