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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) Bifurcation cascade.
(c) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(d) Turbulent flow.

2. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Dynamical system.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) Oscillation.

3. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

4. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1965.

5. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Gustav Mahler.
(b) Dr. Faustus.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Jerry Gollub.

6. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) Momentum diffusion.

7. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) Canada.
(b) Austria.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

8. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

9. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Helium in a Box.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Thermodynamics.

10. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1983.

11. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1986.

12. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?
(a) Richter.
(b) Feigenbaum.
(c) Kadanoff.
(d) Mandelbrot.

13. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

14. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Caltech.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) The University of Bonn.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

15. 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) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?

2. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?

3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

4. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?

5. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

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