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

2. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Bifurcation cascade.
(b) Turbulent flow.
(c) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(d) Laminar flow.

3. Albert Libchaber graduated with a bachelor degree in mathematics from what institution?
(a) The University of Paris.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

4. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?
(a) Feigenbaum.
(b) Richter.
(c) Mandelbrot.
(d) Kadanoff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?

2. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?

3. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

4. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

5. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"? What did their discussions lead to?

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

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

7. Describe the career of Heinz-Otto Peitgen. Where is Peitgen from?

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

9. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?

10. What is the Taylor vortex flow and when does it emerge?

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