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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Software metric.
(b) Software visualization.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

3. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Pattern formation.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

4. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1967.

5. When was Harry L. Swinney born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1939.

6. 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) Thermodynamics.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Theoretical physics.

7. 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) Mandelbrot.
(c) Richter.
(d) Feigenbaum.

8. 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.

9. What refers to the spread of momentum between particles of matter, usually in the liquid state?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) Momentum diffusion.
(d) Turbulent flow.

10. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1982.

11. 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?
(a) The superposition principle.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Bifurcation cascade.
(d) Pattern formation.

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

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

14. 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?
(a) A coin.
(b) A deck of cards.
(c) A compass.
(d) A pair of dice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

2. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

3. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?

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

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

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