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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Dynamical system.
(b) Boundary layer.
(c) Oscillation.
(d) Pattern formation.

2. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) Fractals Everywhere.
(c) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(d) Physical Review Letters.

3. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?
(a) Stability maps.
(b) Chaotic maps.
(c) Space-time maps.
(d) Behavioral maps.

4. Where was Norman Packard born?
(a) Silver City, New Mexico.
(b) Dallas, Texas.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Munising, Michigan.

5. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 10, "Inner Rhythms": "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models"?
(a) Norman Packard.
(b) J. Doyne Farmer.
(c) John Von Neumann.
(d) Edward Spiegel.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

2. When did Robert Stenson Shaw arrive at the University of California at Santa Cruz?

3. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

4. Albert Libchaber's results in his work with helium paralleled what equation that relates the pressure, viscosity, velocity, density of a fluid?

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

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