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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?
(a) The University of Illinois.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(d) The University of Bonn.

2. When was Albert Libchaber born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1927.
(d) 1934.

3. 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 turkey baster.
(c) A softball.
(d) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.

4. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Helium in a Box.
(b) Fractal compression.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Euclidean space.

5. 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?
(a) Psuedoscience.
(b) Bland science.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Normal science.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to study turbulence in fluids?

2. What company did Michael Barnsley found in 1987?

3. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

4. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

5. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

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