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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 a physical science that studies the effects on material bodies, and on radiation in regions of space, of transfer of heat and of work done on or by the bodies or radiation?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Neuroscience.

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

3. Albert Libchaber was a professor at what institution from 1983 to 1991?
(a) The Ecole Normale Supérieure.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Illinois.
(d) The University of Bonn.

4. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal McBee.
(b) Royal Computing.
(c) Royal Mathematics.
(d) Royal Information Systems.

5. Who was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Gustav Mahler.
(c) Jean Racine.
(d) Harry Swinney.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language?

2. 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?"

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

4. Where did Albert Libchaber earn a M.S. degree in physics?

5. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.

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