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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Energy.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Cantor dust.

3. 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) Stable.
(d) Changing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

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

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

13. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) Scotland.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

14. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1927.

15. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Stochastic.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Oscillation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?

2. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.

3. 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?

4. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

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

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