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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 science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Pattern formation.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

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

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

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

5. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Butterfly effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

2. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?

3. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.

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

5. In Chapter 11, "Chaos and Beyond," the author asserts that systems behave in simple ways; as long as systems could be reduced to a few perfectly determined, perfectly understood laws, the long term behavior of the systems would be what?

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