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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1922.

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

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?
(a) "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow."
(b) "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."
(c) "Period Three Implies Chaos."
(d) "Physical Review Letters."

4. What will drain rapidly from large-scale motions to small-scale motions?
(a) Energy.
(b) Viscosity.
(c) Turbulence.
(d) Fractal.

5. How old was Mitchell Feigenbaum when he was offered a post at the Los Alamos National Laboratory?
(a) 29.
(b) 27.
(c) 35.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?

2. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will lead to an increased, steady state in the idealized population?

3. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 7, "The Experimenter": "It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that's happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature"?

4. Who began to call the global construction of fractals "the chaos game" according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

5. 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?

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