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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 will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Turbulence.
(b) Viscosity.
(c) Fractal.
(d) Energy.

2. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?
(a) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(b) Yorktown Heights, New York.
(c) Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

3. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
(a) Chaos theory.
(b) Momentum diffusion.
(c) No-slip condition.
(d) Period doubling bifurcation.

4. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?
(a) A rebel.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A martyr.
(d) A monk.

5. In Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective," the author writes, "Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably" what?
(a) Total.
(b) Zero.
(c) Infinite.
(d) Partial.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Mitchell Feigenbaum awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics?

2. What is the name of a startup company based in San Francisco, headed by co-founder and CEO Norman Packard focusing on the development of machine-learning, statistical model-based methodologies for evolutionary design of complex, high-throughput experiments?

3. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?

4. What refers to a closed trajectory in phase space having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches negative infinity?

5. Albert Libchaber made the first experimental observation of the _____ that leads to chaos and turbulence in convective Rayleigh-Benard systems.

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