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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Helium in a Box.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Euclidean space.

2. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Bifurcation theory.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) The Navier-Stokes equation.

3. 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.

4. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Viscosity.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Turbulence.
(d) Energy.

5. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Rhodium.
(b) Oxygen.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Hydrogen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

2. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

3. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

4. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

5. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

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