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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. 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?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Euclidean space.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Energy.

2. 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"?
(a) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Lewis F. Richardson.
(d) Harry L. Swinney.

3. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1952.

4. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
(a) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(b) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(c) Fractals Everywhere.
(d) Physical Review Letters.

5. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

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

3. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?

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

5. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interests in art and culture are described of Mitchell Feigenbaum in Chapter 6, "Universality"?

2. How is Mitchell Feigenbaum described? What was his early life like, according to the author?

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

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

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

6. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?

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

8. What did Mitchell Feigenbaum determine needed to happen in Chapter 6, "Universality"? Where was he working?

9. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?

10. How did Barnsley's approach differ from that of Richter and Peitgen in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

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