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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Revolutions.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Fractal.

2. 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) Mandelbrot.
(b) Feigenbaum.
(c) Kadanoff.
(d) Richter.

3. 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?
(a) Energy.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Euclidean space.

4. 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?
(a) Dynamic equilibrium.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Software visualization.
(d) The Navier-Stokes equation.

5. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unstable.
(b) Unchanging.
(c) Stable.
(d) Changing.

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

7. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Laminar flow.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Momentum diffusion.

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

9. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Karen Set.
(b) The Martha Set.
(c) The Julia Set.
(d) The Valerie Set.

10. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Neuroscience.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

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

12. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1995.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2001.

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

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

15. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) Poland.
(b) England.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?

2. What is the most abundant element in the universe?

3. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?

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

5. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

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