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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?
(a) Gradient.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

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

4. 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) Dr. Faustus.
(d) Jerry Gollub.

5. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) La Jolla, California.
(b) Tacoma, Washington.
(c) San Francisco, California.
(d) Portland, Oregon.

6. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1986.

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

8. 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) Meteorology.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Neuroscience.

9. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Paris.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

10. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Harry Swinney.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Gustav Mahler.
(d) Jean Racine.

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

12. 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) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Lewis F. Richardson.
(c) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(d) Dr. Faustus.

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

14. 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) Fractal compression.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Limit-cycle.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?

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"?

3. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

4. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

5. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

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