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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 the atomic number of helium?
(a) 21.
(b) 7.
(c) 14.
(d) 2.

2. 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) Period doubling bifurcation.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) No-slip condition.
(d) Momentum diffusion.

3. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) A parameter.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Laminar flow.
(d) Energy.

4. From where had Robert Stenson Shaw graduated when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?
(a) The University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(d) Harvard University.

5. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?
(a) Fraction model.
(b) Computer model.
(c) Algorithm model.
(d) Mathematical model.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?

2. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

3. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?

4. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

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?

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