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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Stochastic.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Oscillation.
(d) Incongruity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Albert Libchaber born?

2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?

3. 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"?

4. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?

2. How had Albert Libchaber gained fame in his career, according to the author in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

3. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

4. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

5. Who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? For what great work is he most well known?

6. How are the Navier-Stokes equations defined? For whom are they named?

7. How did Barnsley's approach differ from that of Richter and Peitgen in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

8. To whom does the author compare the background of Albert Libchaber in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"? When was Albert Libchaber born?

9. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?

10. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?

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