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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 21.
(b) 14.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

4. 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 pair of dice.
(c) A compass.
(d) A deck of cards.

5. 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.

6. 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?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Revolutions.
(c) Oscillation.
(d) Gradient.

7. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?
(a) Michael Barnsley.
(b) Conrad Aiken.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Leo Kadanoff.

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

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

10. 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) Richter.
(c) Kadanoff.
(d) Mandelbrot.

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

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

13. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Karen Set.
(b) The Julia Set.
(c) The Valerie Set.
(d) The Martha Set.

14. 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) Gradient.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

15. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 29.
(b) 35.
(c) 22.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the spread of momentum between particles of matter, usually in the liquid state?

2. 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?

3. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

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

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