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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Albert Libchaber win the Wolf Prize in Physics?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1986.

2. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
(a) Jerry Gollub.
(b) Gustav Mahler.
(c) Dr. Faustus.
(d) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

3. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(b) New York, New York.
(c) Hartford, Connecticut.
(d) Frankfort, Kentucky.

4. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(b) A softball.
(c) A turkey baster.
(d) A twenty-story high pendulum.

5. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(b) Bifurcation cascade.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) Laminar flow.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Robert Stenson Shaw when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?

2. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?

3. From what institution did Albert Libchaber earn his Ph.D.?

4. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?

5. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

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