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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Kadanoff.
(b) Mandelbrot.
(c) Feigenbaum.
(d) Richter.

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

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

4. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Jean Racine.
(c) Gustav Mahler.
(d) Harry Swinney.

5. What refers to the spread of momentum between particles of matter, usually in the liquid state?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Momentum diffusion.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Turbulent flow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Stephen Smale from?

2. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?

3. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

4. What is the atomic number of helium?

5. Where was James Yorke born?

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