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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Helium in a Box.
(d) Euclidean space.

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

3. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Energy.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Turbulence.

4. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

5. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) Thermodynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?

2. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?

3. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

4. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author differentiate between theorists and experimentalists in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

2. Whose results did Albert Libchaber inadvertently recreate in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

3. Describe the Julia set. How is it related to the Fatou set?

4. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?

5. Who was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? For what great work is he most well known?

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

7. How had Albert Libchaber gained fame in his career, according to the author in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"?

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

9. How does the author describe the evolution of chaos in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

10. Describe the Mandelbrot set. To what it is closely related?

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