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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 refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?
(a) Bend.
(b) Cray.
(c) Ting.
(d) More.

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"?
(a) Albert Libchaber.
(b) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(c) Michael Barnsley.
(d) Conrad Aiken.

3. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Stanislaw Ulam.
(d) Harvey J. Gold.

4. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Edward Lorenz.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

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

2. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

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

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

5. What is the atomic number of helium?

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