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

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) Conrad Aiken.
(c) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(d) Michael Barnsley.

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

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) Divisor.
(b) Paradigm.
(c) Parameter.
(d) Fraction.

5. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(b) A softball.
(c) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(d) A turkey baster.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

2. Where was Robert May born?

3. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

4. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?

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

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