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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

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

2. 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) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(c) Lewis F. Richardson.
(d) Harry L. Swinney.

3. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?
(a) Information theory.
(b) Biology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Meteorology.

4. What is a description of a system using mathematical concepts and language?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Fraction model.
(c) Mathematical model.
(d) Algorithm model.

5. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?
(a) Dublin, Ireland.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Reading, England.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?

2. What mathematical term refers to a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system in a discrete dynamical system?

3. When was Robert May born?

4. From where had Robert Stenson Shaw graduated when he arrived at the University of California at Santa Cruz?

5. When was the book Spacetime, Geometry, Cosmology published?

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