View a FREE sample

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) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) Theoretical physics.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Dr. Faustus.
(c) Lewis F. Richardson.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

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

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

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?
(a) Gradient.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?

2. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?

3. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

4. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?

5. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Feigenbaum constants defined?

2. What is the definition of a bifurcation diagram?

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

4. To whom does the author compare the background of Albert Libchaber in Chapter 7, "The Experimenter"? When was Albert Libchaber born?

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

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

7. How is the Taylor-Couette flow defined?

8. What problems did turbulence cause for physicists and scientists, according to the author in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors"?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 865 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample