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

3. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?
(a) Wallace Stevens.
(b) Robert May.
(c) James Yorke.
(d) Enrico Fermi.

4. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Bifurcation theory.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Fluid dynamics.

5. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.
(a) Divisor.
(b) Paradigm.
(c) Fraction.
(d) Parameter.

6. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1948.

7. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1935.

8. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The Interior Department.
(b) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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

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

11. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?
(a) Frantic.
(b) Rambling.
(c) Pandamonium.
(d) Chaos.

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

13. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?
(a) A martyr.
(b) A monk.
(c) A rebel.
(d) A philosopher.

14. Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) Warsaw, Poland.
(b) Milan, Italy.
(c) Lisbon, Portugal.
(d) Reykjavík, Iceland.

15. 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?
(a) Hummingbird effect.
(b) Pufferfish effect.
(c) Kangaroo effect.
(d) Butterfly effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?

2. When was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology founded?

3. What does Gleick assert was the inspiration for Archimedes in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

4. What refers to a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington, and founded in 1972?

5. When was Steven Smale born?

(see the answer keys)

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