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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal Information Systems.
(b) Royal Computing.
(c) Royal McBee.
(d) Royal Mathematics.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?
(a) Michael Barnsley.
(b) Conrad Aiken.
(c) Albert Libchaber.
(d) Benoit Mandelbrot.

3. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Software metric.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Software visualization.

4. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Dynamical system.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Pattern formation.

5. When was Steven Smale born?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1938.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?

2. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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

5. 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?

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