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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Period doubling bifurcation.
(d) Fluid dynamics.
2. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?
(a) Gradient.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Euclidean space.
3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Stochastic.
4. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Gradient.
5. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Pattern formation.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Dynamical system.
6. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Period doubling bifurcation.
(d) Fractal compression.
7. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) Poland.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Scotland.
8. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Michael Barnsley.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.
9. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(c) Bifurcation theory.
(d) Chaos theory.
10. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(b) Frankfort, Kentucky.
(c) Hartford, Connecticut.
(d) New York, New York.
11. At what institution did Albert Libchaber become a professor of physics in 1991?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Caltech.
12. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Steady.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Changing.
13. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?
(a) Software metric.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Software visualization.
14. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?
(a) Leo Kadanoff.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Michael Barnsley.
15. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Bonn.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) The University of Chicago.
Short Answer Questions
1. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
2. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
3. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?
4. What is the atomic number of helium?
5. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?
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