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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 refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Software visualization.

2. What refers to the spread of momentum between particles of matter, usually in the liquid state?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) Turbulent flow.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Chaos theory.

3. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?
(a) Momentum diffusion.
(b) Laminar flow.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Chaos theory.

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

5. Where is Michael Barnsley from?
(a) England.
(b) Scotland.
(c) Spain.
(d) Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

2. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?

3. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

5. When was Albert Libchaber born?

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