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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Harry Swinney.
(b) Gustav Mahler.
(c) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(d) Jean Racine.

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

3. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Prediction.

4. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?
(a) Gradient.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Paradigm shift.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was James Yorke born?

2. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

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

4. What was the profession of Benoit Mandelbrot's father?

5. When was Albert Libchaber born?

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