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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) Robert May.
(b) James Yorke.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Stochastic.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Oscillation.

4. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) No-slip condition.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Momentum diffusion.
(d) Chaos theory.

5. Where did Michael Barnsley earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(c) The University of Paris.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Michael Barnsley's book SuperFractals published?

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

3. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

4. When was Edward Lorenz born?

5. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

(see the answer key)

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