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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Richter.
(b) Feigenbaum.
(c) Mandelbrot.
(d) Kadanoff.

2. What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole?
(a) Gradient.
(b) Oscillation.
(c) Revolutions.
(d) Fractal.

3. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Dublin, Ireland.
(c) Paris, France.
(d) Reading, England.

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

5. In mathematics, what refers to a map that exhibits some sort of chaotic behavior?
(a) Stability maps.
(b) Chaotic maps.
(c) Behavioral maps.
(d) Space-time maps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?

2. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?

3. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?

4. 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?

5. When was Harry L. Swinney born?

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