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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Changing.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Steady.

2. What occurs when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers?
(a) Laminar flow.
(b) Momentum diffusion.
(c) Chaos theory.
(d) Theoretical physics.

3. In physics and fluid mechanics, what refers to the layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where effects of viscosity of the fluid are considered in detail?
(a) Cantor dust.
(b) Gradient.
(c) Boundary layer.
(d) Euclidean space.

4. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) A six-foot wide magnifying glass.
(b) A softball.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A turkey baster.

5. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?
(a) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(b) Software metric.
(c) Software visualization.
(d) Fractal compression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos": "What else, when chaos draws all forced inward to shape a single leaf"?

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

3. Gleick compares the Mandlebrot Set to what set in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?

4. In Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect," the author writes, "The Butterfly Effect acquired a technical name: sensitive dependence on _____________"?

5. According to Gleick in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs," what will cause the idealized population to end up at the lower level?

(see the answer key)

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