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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 branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

2. What is the most abundant element in the universe?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Rhodium.
(c) Aluminum.
(d) Hydrogen.

3. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Stochastic.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Oscillation.

4. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
(a) Parameter.
(b) Paradigm.
(c) Fraction.
(d) Divisor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?

2. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

3. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

4. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?

5. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

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