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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
2. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?
3. At what institution did Albert Libchaber become a professor of physics in 1991?
4. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?
2. Who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? For what great work is he most well known?
3. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?
4. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?
5. How does the author describe the evolution of chaos in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
6. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
7. How were fractal basin boundaries used in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What scientists studied the transitions?
8. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?
9. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?
10. How did Barnsley's approach differ from that of Richter and Peitgen in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Hendrik Houthakker, his work at Harvard University, and his reasons for inviting Benoit Mandelbrot to speak. What did Houthakker teach?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Albert Libchaber's major contributions in experimental condensed matter physics. How did his discoveries relate to the Rayleigh-Benard systems?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Mitchell Feigenbaum and Michael Barnsley. How did the two mathematicians meet and what discoveries arose from their conversations?
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