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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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."

2. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?
(a) A parameter.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Energy.
(d) Laminar flow.

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

4. In what year did Edward Lorenz create a weather simulator as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1966.

5. What mathematical theorem states that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere?
(a) Information theory.
(b) No-slip condition.
(c) Fractal compression.
(d) Poincare conjecture.

Short Answer 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?

2. What is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force?

3. When was Edward Lorenz born?

4. What is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena?

5. In Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature," Houthakker explained to Mandelbrot the diagram in his office represented eight years of what?

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