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

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

3. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(b) Warsaw, Poland.
(c) Nimbin, Australia.
(d) Nümbrecht, Germany.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?

2. 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?

3. What is the most abundant element in the universe?

4. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

5. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?

2. How is turbulence defined in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

3. What interests in art and culture are described of Mitchell Feigenbaum in Chapter 6, "Universality"?

4. Who is Michael Barnsley? How is his early career described in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

5. What was Harry Swinney known for in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"? Where did his interests lie?

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

7. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?

8. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

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

10. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?

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