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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?
(a) Pattern formation.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

2. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

3. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 27.
(b) 29.
(c) 22.
(d) 35.

4. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?
(a) Huntsville, Alabama.
(b) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(c) Hot Springs, Arkansas.
(d) Silver Spring, Maryland.

5. 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) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(b) Dr. Faustus.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?

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

3. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?

4. 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?

5. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

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