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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Michael Barnsley.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

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

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

4. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Turbulent flow.
(b) Laminar flow.
(c) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(d) Bifurcation cascade.

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

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

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

8. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?
(a) Pattern formation.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

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

10. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

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

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

13. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Neuroscience.

14. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unstable.
(b) Changing.
(c) Stable.
(d) Unchanging.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

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?

3. When was Albert Libchaber born?

4. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

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

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