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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In vector calculus, what refers to a vector field that points in the direction of the greatest rate of increase of the scalar field, and whose magnitude is the greatest rate of change?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Euclidean space.
2. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?
(a) A lower parameter.
(b) A multiplier parameter.
(c) A higher parameter.
(d) A fraction parameter.
3. What refers to a change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science?
(a) Paradigm shift.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.
4. In mathematics, what is a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle, or whose output is not directly proportional to its input?
(a) Hyperlinear system.
(b) Linear system.
(c) Nonlinear system.
(d) Thermolinear system.
5. For what company had Benoit Mandelbrot been working in economics, studying distribution of various incomes in the economy when he was invited by Houthakker to speak at Harvard?
(a) Iterated Systems Incorporated.
(b) Xerox.
(c) IBM.
(d) ProtoLife.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?
2. Where did Mitchell Feigenbaum attend for graduate study in electrical engineering but changed his area to physics?
3. With whom did Harry Swinney perform experiments on the onset of turbulence for water in rotating cylinders?
4. 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?"
5. What, according to the author, are created out of things that have come to an end?
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