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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?
(a) The Dynamical Systems Collective.
(b) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
(c) IBM.
(d) Xerox.

3. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of Illinois.
(c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Harvard University.

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

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

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

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

8. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Hydrogen.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Rhodium.

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The University of Bonn.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) Caltech.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?

4. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

5. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

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