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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Poincare conjecture.
(c) Bifurcation cascade.
(d) No-slip condition.

2. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?
(a) Loyola University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Stanford University.

3. In physics and systems theory, what states that, for all linear systems, the net response at a given place and time caused by two or more stimuli is the sum of the responses which would have been caused by each stimulus individually?
(a) Pattern formation.
(b) The superposition principle.
(c) Bifurcation theory.
(d) Bifurcation cascade.

4. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1966.

5. What is a lossy compression method for digital images based on fractals?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(d) Fractal compression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gleick quote as saying "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearily!" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

2. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

3. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?

4. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?

5. Where was Gustav Mahler born?

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