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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. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?
2. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?
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. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
5. When was Albert Libchaber born?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?
2. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
3. Describe the Julia set. How is it related to the Fatou set?
4. What was Harry Swinney known for in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"? Where did his interests lie?
5. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?
6. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?
7. What interests in art and culture are described of Mitchell Feigenbaum in Chapter 6, "Universality"?
8. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?
9. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
10. How are the Navier-Stokes equations defined? For whom are they named?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot and Mandelbrot's work as a mathematician. How did WWII affect the education Mandelbrot received?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of chaos theory as it relates to the biological and ecological sciences. When and how did ecologists come to use chaos in their theories?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the computer development of the 1960s and the Royal McBee computer used by Edward Lorenz. What did Lorenz develop to aid in computer analysis?
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