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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 what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1980.

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?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Neuroscience.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Meteorology.

3. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Boundary layer.

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

5. 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?
(a) Dynamic equilibrium.
(b) Energy.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Cantor dust.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where is Michael Barnsley from?

4. 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"?

5. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?

7. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?

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

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

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

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