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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) 21.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

2. 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) Dr. Faustus.
(c) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.

3. 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) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Harry L. Swinney.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.

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

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

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

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

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

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) Theoretical physics.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

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

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

12. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Turbulence.
(c) Energy.
(d) Viscosity.

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

14. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Oscillation.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) Dynamical system.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

2. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?

3. 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?

4. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?

5. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

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