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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) No-slip condition.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

2. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?
(a) No-slip condition.
(b) Poincare conjecture.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Information theory.

3. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(b) "Period Three Implies Chaos".
(c) "Physical Review Letters".
(d) "Fractals Everywhere".

4. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Economics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Chaos theory.

5. 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) James Yorke.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Robert May.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Edward Lorenz born?

2. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

3. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

4. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's mother?

5. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

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