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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's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) Bifurcation theory.
(d) The Navier-Stokes equation.

2. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Energy.

3. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Navy.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(d) The U.S. Coast Guard.

4. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Software visualization.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Fractal compression.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?

2. Where was James Yorke born?

3. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?

4. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?

5. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."

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