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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history or behavior?
(a) Software visualization.
(b) Cosmic arrhythmias.
(c) Software metric.
(d) Fractal compression.

2. 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 turkey baster.
(c) A twenty-story high pendulum.
(d) A softball.

3. When was Harry L. Swinney born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1907.

4. Who is attributed to the following quote from Chapter 10, "Inner Rhythms": "The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models"?
(a) Edward Spiegel.
(b) John Von Neumann.
(c) Norman Packard.
(d) J. Doyne Farmer.

5. What were used to address deep issues in theoretical physics according to the author in Chapter 8, "Images of Chaos"?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Fluid dynamics.
(c) Period doubling bifurcation.
(d) Fractal basin boundaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical term refers to the Euclidean plane and three-dimensional space of Euclidean geometry, as well as the generalizations of these notions to higher dimensions?

2. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?

3. What paper did James Yorke publish in 1975 concerning chaos?

4. When William Burke returned to Santa Cruz in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective," he handed who a piece of paper to run through the analog computer?

5. What was the name of Edward Lorenz's 1963 paper in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

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