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

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

3. In Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," Gleick writes, "In the emergence of chaos as a new science in the 1970s, _____ were destined to play a special role."
(a) Ecologists.
(b) Botanists.
(c) Paleontologists.
(d) Geologists.

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

5. 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) Enrico Fermi.
(c) Robert May.
(d) James Yorke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?

2. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?

3. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?

4. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?

5. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.

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