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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cantor dust.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Boundary layer.

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

3. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Bifurcation theory.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

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

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

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

7. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1986.

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

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

10. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?
(a) Stability maps.
(b) Behavioral maps.
(c) Chaotic maps.
(d) Space-time maps.

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

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

13. 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.

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

15. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Canada.
(d) Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?

5. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?

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