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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Dynamic equilibrium.
(b) Software visualization.
(c) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

3. 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) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(d) Chaos theory.

4. 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?
(a) Richter.
(b) Feigenbaum.
(c) Mandelbrot.
(d) Kadanoff.

5. Where was Gustav Mahler born?
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) Italy.
(d) Austria.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

3. 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?

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

5. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?

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