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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. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
2. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?
3. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
4. What is the atomic number of helium?
5. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
Short Essay Questions
1. To whom does the author compare the background of Albert Libchaber in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"? When was Albert Libchaber born?
2. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
3. How are the Navier-Stokes equations defined? For whom are they named?
4. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?
5. How is turbulence defined in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
6. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?
7. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?
8. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?
9. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?
10. Describe the Julia set. How is it related to the Fatou set?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Albert Libchaber's major contributions in experimental condensed matter physics. How did his discoveries relate to the Rayleigh-Benard systems?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Benoit Mandelbrot's work for International Business Machines Corporation. When was IBM founded and how was Mandelbrot involved in its evolution?
Essay Topic 3
Define and discuss turbulence and the problems its discovery created for scientists and physicists. How is turbulence dealt with today by science?
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