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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) Chaos theory.

2. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Stable.
(b) Unstable.
(c) Changing.
(d) Unchanging.

3. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) Austria.
(b) Canada.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Software visualization.
(b) Software metric.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

5. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Euclidean space.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Gradient.

6. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

7. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1948.

8. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) The University of Bonn.

9. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Software visualization.
(d) Software metric.

10. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?
(a) Steady.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Changing.

11. 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"?
(a) Michael Barnsley.
(b) Leo Kadanoff.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Conrad Aiken.

12. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?
(a) 1976.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1977.

13. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Bonn.
(d) The University of Illinois.

14. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Viscosity.

15. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Aluminum.
(b) Hydrogen.
(c) Rhodium.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?

2. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?

3. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

4. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?

5. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?

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