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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Lewis F. Richardson.
(c) Harry L. Swinney.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

3. 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) Dynamical system.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Oscillation.

4. 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 visualization.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

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

6. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 29.
(b) 27.
(c) 22.
(d) 35.

7. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1974.

8. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Energy.
(d) Turbulence.

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

10. 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) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

11. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Rhodium.
(b) Aluminum.
(c) Oxygen.
(d) Hydrogen.

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

13. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1922.

14. 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"?
(a) Dr. Faustus.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.

15. At what institution did Albert Libchaber become a professor of physics in 1991?
(a) Caltech.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Harry L. Swinney born?

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

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

4. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

5. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.

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