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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) Viscosity.
(d) Gradient.

2. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?
(a) Silver Spring, Maryland.
(b) Huntsville, Alabama.
(c) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(d) Hot Springs, Arkansas.

3. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Reading, England.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Albert Libchaber born?

2. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

3. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 2, "Revolution": "Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself outside the ordinary range of what are called statistics"?

4. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

5. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

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