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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Energy.
(b) Euclidean space.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Cantor dust.

2. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1916.

3. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1959.

4. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(b) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(c) The University of Bonn.
(d) Johns Hopkins University.

5. 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) Boundary layer.
(d) Cantor dust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?

2. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?

3. Where is Stephen Smale from?

4. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?

5. 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?

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