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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) London.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Prague.

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

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

4. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Fractal basin boundaries.
(b) Period doubling bifurcation.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Thermodynamics.

5. Who along with Heinz-Otto Peitgen studied phase transitions, nonmagnetization and magnetization in materials and their picture of those boundaries showed the complex beauty that began to seem to natural?
(a) Feigenbaum.
(b) Mandelbrot.
(c) Richter.
(d) Kadanoff.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the book Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology published?

2. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?

3. When was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?

4. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?

5. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?

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