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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Bonn.

2. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(c) Physical Review Letters.
(d) Fractals Everywhere.

3. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Turbulence.
(d) Energy.

4. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Poincare conjecture.
(d) Theoretical physics.

5. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?
(a) Period doubling bifurcation.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Limit-cycle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?

3. What mathematical term refers to a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system in a discrete dynamical system?

4. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

5. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

2. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?

3. Describe the Julia set. How is it related to the Fatou set?

4. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?

5. What was Harry Swinney known for in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"? Where did his interests lie?

6. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?

7. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

8. To whom does the author compare the background of Albert Libchaber in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"? When was Albert Libchaber born?

9. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?

10. How are the Navier-Stokes equations defined? For whom are they named?

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