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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
(a) Follow the same rules.
(b) Use the same equipment.
(c) Speak the same language.
(d) Report to work at the same time.

2. 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) Normal science.
(b) Science of commonality.
(c) Psuedoscience.
(d) Bland science.

3. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1941.

4. Where was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Atlantic City, New Jersey.
(d) West Hartford, Connecticut.

5. Who is quoted in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect" as saying "Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
(a) Edward Lorenz.
(b) Richard Feynman.
(c) Stephen Spender.
(d) Thomas S. Kuhn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere?

2. 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?

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?

4. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

5. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

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