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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Nümbrecht, Germany.
(b) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Nimbin, Australia.

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

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

4. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Viscosity.

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

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

7. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.

8. 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?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Gradient.

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

10. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) No-slip condition.
(b) Momentum diffusion.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

11. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The University of Bonn.
(b) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of Illinois.

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

13. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Conrad Aiken.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Harry L. Swinney born?

3. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

4. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

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

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