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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Bonn.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) The University of Chicago.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

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

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

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

11. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(b) Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) New York, New York.
(d) Frankfort, Kentucky.

12. 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) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Fractal compression.

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

14. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1949.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Harry L. Swinney born?

2. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

3. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?

4. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?

5. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?

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