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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Helium in a Box.
(d) Fractal compression.

2. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Johns Hopkins University.
(b) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Bonn.

3. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Paris.
(b) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

4. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Gustav Mahler.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Dr. Faustus.
(d) Jerry Gollub.

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

6. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) Period doubling bifurcation.
(b) No-slip condition.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Momentum diffusion.

7. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1974.

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

9. 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) Revolutions.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Gradient.

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Leo Kadanoff.

15. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Changing.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Steady.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Michael Barnsley from?

2. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?

3. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?

4. 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?

5. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?

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