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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In statistics, what refers to any statistical relationship between two random variables or two sets of data?
(a) Commonality.
(b) Prediction.
(c) Diversity.
(d) Dependence.

2. 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) Richard Feynman.
(b) Thomas S. Kuhn.
(c) Edward Lorenz.
(d) Stephen Spender.

3. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incorrigible.
(b) Indistinguishable.
(c) Incommensurable.
(d) Incomprehensible.

4. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?
(a) "Fractals Everywhere".
(b) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow".
(c) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
(d) "Physical Review Letters".

5. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) Nonlinear system.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Chaos theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

5. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?

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