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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Lewis F. Richardson.
(b) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(c) Harry L. Swinney.
(d) Mitchell Feigenbaum.

2. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(c) Frankfort, Kentucky.
(d) New York, New York.

3. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 35.
(b) 22.
(c) 29.
(d) 27.

4. From what institution did Harry L. Swinney earn his Ph.D.?
(a) Caltech.
(b) The University of Bonn.
(c) Johns Hopkins University.
(d) The University of Illinois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the National Weather Service headquartered?

2. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

3. 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?

4. When was James Yorke born?

5. In fluid dynamics, what consists of a viscous fluid confined in the gap between two rotating cylinders?

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