Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was James Yorke born?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1941.

2. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) Fractals Everywhere.
(b) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(c) Period Three Implies Chaos.
(d) Physical Review Letters.

3. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Cairo, Egypt.
(b) Sydney, Australia.
(c) Tokyo, Japan.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

4. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal McBee.
(b) Royal Information Systems.
(c) Royal Mathematics.
(d) Royal Computing.

5. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(c) "Physical Review Letters."
(d) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

2. Where was Hendrik Houthakker born?

3. What refers to the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state?

4. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?

5. When was Harry L. Swinney born?

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