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

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

3. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 21.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Software metric.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Software visualization.
(d) Fractal compression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?

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 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"?

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?

5. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Julia set. How is it related to the Fatou set?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How were fractal basin boundaries used in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What scientists studied the transitions?

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

9. How is Mitchell Feigenbaum described? What was his early life like, according to the author?

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

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