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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
2. 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"?
3. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
4. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
2. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?
3. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?
4. How were fractal basin boundaries used in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What scientists studied the transitions?
5. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?
6. What is the Taylor vortex flow and when does it emerge?
7. How is Mitchell Feigenbaum described? What was his early life like, according to the author?
8. How does the author describe the evolution of chaos in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
9. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?
10. Who is Michael Barnsley? How is his early career described in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Define and discuss linear and nonlinear science, period-doublings and chaos. How did the scientists from the book contribute to these concepts?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the life and work of Thomas S. Kuhn and the scientific revolution he originated. What book did Kuhn publish and what was its impact on science?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Mitchell Feigenbaum's history, education and work. What are Feigenbaum constants and when were they discovered?
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