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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Harry L. Swinney born?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1907.

2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Princeton University.

3. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Bonn.
(b) Caltech.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

4. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) No-slip condition.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

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

6. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Gustav Mahler.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Jerry Gollub.
(d) Dr. Faustus.

7. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Revolutions.

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

9. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Frankfort, Kentucky.
(c) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(d) Hartford, Connecticut.

10. According to the author, "to play the chaos game quickly, you need a computer with a graphics screen and a random number generator, but in principle a sheet of paper and" what will work as well?
(a) A coin.
(b) A compass.
(c) A deck of cards.
(d) A pair of dice.

11. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1922.

12. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The University of Bonn.
(b) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) The University of Illinois.

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

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

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

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. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

3. According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II?

4. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?

5. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

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