Week 5 Flashcards
1
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What is the idea of universality and scale invariance?
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2
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What is a self-similar object?
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3
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What is an iteration process? A Lindenmeyer System and Stochastic Cellular?
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4
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What is the idea of fractal dimentions?
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5
Q
What is the fractal dimention of a percolating cluster at criticality?
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6
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How do Random Walks display universal and emergent behavior?
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7
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What is the definition of a random walk?
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8
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What is the definition of iid variables?
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9
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What is a one dimentional diffusion equation?
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10
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What is the one dimentional Fokker-Plan equation?
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11
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What are Lévy flights?
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12
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What is the idea behind a renormalization group?
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13
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What is the real-space renormalization procedure?
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