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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 occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Momentum diffusion.
(d) Turbulent flow.

2. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 2.
(b) 21.
(c) 7.
(d) 14.

3. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) Turbulent flow.
(c) Bifurcation cascade.
(d) The Taylor-Couette flow.

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?
(a) Helium in a Box.
(b) Euclidean space.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Fractal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Robert May born?

2. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.

3. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?

4. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

5. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?

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