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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Reading, England.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

2. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Energy.
(c) Turbulence.
(d) Viscosity.

3. How many equations were on the piece of paper William Burke wanted to run through the analog computer in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

4. What was Edward Spiegel's specialty, discussed in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"?
(a) "Meteorological forecasting."
(b) "String theory."
(c) "Cosmic arrhythmias."
(d) "Black holes."

5. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) Fractals Everywhere.
(b) Physical Review Letters.
(c) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(d) Period Three Implies Chaos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?

2. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

3. Bernardo Huberman was a research fellow at what research center which had been part of the Santa Cruz group?

4. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

5. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?

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