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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. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
2. 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?
3. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
4. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
5. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?
2. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?
3. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?
4. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
5. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?
6. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?
7. To whom does the author compare the background of Albert Libchaber in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"? When was Albert Libchaber born?
8. What is the Taylor vortex flow and when does it emerge?
9. Who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? For what great work is he most well known?
10. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Define and discuss fractals, peano curves, Sierpinski carpets and Sierpinski gaskets. When were Sierpinski carpets first discovered?
Essay Topic 3
Describe Benoit Mandelbrot's work for International Business Machines Corporation. When was IBM founded and how was Mandelbrot involved in its evolution?
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