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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 defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Energy.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Turbulence.
2. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Fractal.
(b) Energy.
(c) Turbulence.
(d) Viscosity.
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) Paleontologists.
(c) Geologists.
(d) Botanists.
4. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?
(a) Stanislaw Ulam.
(b) Harvey J. Gold.
(c) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(d) Steven Smale.
5. What refers to a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Meteorology.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Neuroscience.
Short Answer 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?
2. 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?
3. In fluid dynamics, what condition for viscous fluids states that at a solid boundary, the fluid will have zero velocity relative to the boundary?
4. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 5, "Strange Attractors": "Big whorls have little whorls which feed on their velocity, and little whorls have lesser whorls and so on to viscosity"?
5. When was Edward Lorenz born?
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