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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Physiology.

2. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Fractal basin boundaries.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Poincare conjecture.

3. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Wallace Stevens.
(d) Harvey J. Gold.

4. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Hyperlinear system.
(b) Thermolinear system.
(c) Linear system.
(d) Nonlinear system.

5. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?
(a) Stochastic.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Fractal.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?

3. One of the implications of what theorem is that if a continuous discrete dynamical system on the real line has a periodic point of period 3, then it must have periodic points of every other period?

4. Where was James Yorke born?

5. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?

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