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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. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
2. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
3. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
4. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
5. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
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. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?
3. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?
4. How is Mitchell Feigenbaum described? What was his early life like, according to the author?
5. Who is Michael Barnsley? How is his early career described in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
6. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?
7. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?
8. What is the Taylor vortex flow and when does it emerge?
9. How had Albert Libchaber gained fame in his career, according to the author in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?
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 Mitchell Feigenbaum and Michael Barnsley. How did the two mathematicians meet and what discoveries arose from their conversations?
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
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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