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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. 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"?

2. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?

3. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

4. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?

5. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Harry Swinney known for in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"? Where did his interests lie?

3. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?

4. How had Albert Libchaber gained fame in his career, according to the author 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. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the psychological experiment described by Thomas S. Kuhn in Chapter 2, "Revolution." What discoveries were made through the work?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Mitchell Feigenbaum's history, education and work. What are Feigenbaum constants and when were they discovered?

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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