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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 is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?
(a) Poincare conjecture.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

2. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?
(a) Wheat prices.
(b) Cotton prices.
(c) Corn prices.
(d) Almond prices.

3. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Harvey J. Gold.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) Wallace Stevens.

4. 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?
(a) The superposition principle.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Bifurcation cascade.
(d) Pattern formation.

5. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?

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?

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

5. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?

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