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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the science of the function of living systems?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Neuroscience.
(d) Philosophy.

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

4. When was J. Doyne Farmer born?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1952.

5. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Thermodynamics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was William Burke born?

2. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?

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

4. What mathematical term refers to a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system in a discrete dynamical system?

5. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

(see the answer key)

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