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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 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 Information Systems.
(b) Royal McBee.
(c) Royal Mathematics.
(d) Royal Computing.

2. What is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy?
(a) The Navier-Stokes equation.
(b) Biology.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Physics.

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

4. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1957.

5. What occurs at higher velocities where eddies or small packets of fluid particles form leading to lateral mixing?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Chaos theory.
(c) Turbulent flow.
(d) Momentum diffusion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?

3. 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?

4. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?

5. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?

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