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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?
(a) Fractal compression.
(b) Limit-cycle.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

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

3. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1982.

4. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1922.

5. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Computer hardware.
(c) Computer virus.
(d) Computer army.

Short Answer Questions

1. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

2. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

3. When did Mitchell Feigenbaum meet Michael Barnsley at a conference in Corsica?

4. Where was James Yorke born?

5. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

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