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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Energy.
(b) Dynamic equilibrium.
(c) Cantor dust.
(d) Euclidean space.

2. Who is attributed with the following quote in the beginning of Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs": "The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behavior"?
(a) Harvey J. Gold.
(b) Stanislaw Ulam.
(c) Benoit Mandelbrot.
(d) Steven Smale.

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

4. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer model.
(b) Computer army.
(c) Computer hardware.
(d) Computer virus.

5. In control theory, a system is _____ if any of the roots of its characteristic equation has real part greater than zero.
(a) Unchanging.
(b) Stable.
(c) Unstable.
(d) Changing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to systems whose behavior is intrinsically non-deterministic?

2. Where is the main laboratory for the Thomas J. Watson Research Center?

3. Where is the European Center for Medium Range Forecasts headquartered?

4. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?

5. Who said that calling the study of chaos a nonlinear science was akin to calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals" in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

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