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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
(a) "Initial conditions."
(b) "Ideal conditions."
(c) "Random conditions."
(d) "Controlled conditions."

2. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The television and automobile.
(b) The digital computer and television.
(c) The space satellite and digital computer.
(d) The automobile and space stellite.

3. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Michael Barnsley.
(b) Albert Libchaber.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) Leo Kadanoff.

4. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1986.

5. What is the atomic number of helium?
(a) 7.
(b) 14.
(c) 2.
(d) 21.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?

3. When was Edward Lorenz born?

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

5. 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?

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