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

2. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) La Jolla, California.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Tacoma, Washington.
(d) San Francisco, California.

3. 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) Gradient.
(d) Boundary layer.

4. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1959.

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

Short Answer 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?

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

3. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

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

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?

7. How were fractal basin boundaries used in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What scientists studied the transitions?

8. How is turbulence defined in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

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

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

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