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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 concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Normal science.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Psuedoscience.

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

3. Where is the Scripps Research Institute headquartered?
(a) Tacoma, Washington.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Portland, Oregon.
(d) La Jolla, California.

4. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?
(a) Bifurcation cascade.
(b) Turbulent flow.
(c) The Taylor-Couette flow.
(d) Laminar flow.

5. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?
(a) Enrico Fermi.
(b) Wallace Stevens.
(c) Harvey J. Gold.
(d) Stanislaw Ulam.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

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

4. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

5. What science deals with the visible, orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns?

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