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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) The Julia Set.
(b) The Karen Set.
(c) The Martha Set.
(d) The Valerie Set.

2. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Neuroscience.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

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

4. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Psuedoscience.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Normal science.

5. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?

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"?

3. What is the atomic number of helium?

4. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?

5. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

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