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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a computer program or network of computers that attempts to simulate an abstract model of a particular system?
(a) Computer hardware.
(b) Computer army.
(c) Computer model.
(d) Computer virus.

2. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Tokyo, Japan.
(c) Cairo, Egypt.
(d) Sydney, Australia.

3. Where is Stephen Smale from?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Flint, Michigan.
(d) Aurora, Illinois.

4. 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?
(a) Bland science.
(b) Psuedoscience.
(c) Science of commonality.
(d) Normal science.

5. In what year did Benoit Mandelbrot recognize the ghost of an idea when he spotted a diagram charted out on the blackboard in Hendrik Houthakker's office?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In mathematics and statistics, a _____ is a quantity that serves to relate functions and variables using a common variable when such a relationship would be difficult to explicate with an equation.

3. What work by Edward Lorenz greatly impacted the thinking of James Yorke, as described in Chapter 3, "Life's Ups and Downs"?

4. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

5. From what institution did Thomas S. Kuhn earn his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics?

Short Essay Questions

1. When and where was the National Meteorological Center founded in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? What existed before it?

2. How did Lorenz develop ways to reproduce complex behavior in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

3. Describe the weather simulator discussed in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect." What weather conditions did it create?

4. What impact did The Structure of Scientific Revolutions have on the scientific community? What did Kuhn assert in the book?

5. In Chapter 2, "Revolution" Gleick refers to the pendulum as being the laboratory mouse of chaos, the new science. What metaphorical examples does Gleick give for other great scientists in this chapter?

6. What variable changed the outcome in the experiment described by Thomas S. Kuhn in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

7. How is the relationship between meteorologists and computers described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?

8. What was the early life of Benoit Mandelbrot like, as described by the author in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

9. What did Benoit Mandelbrot and Hendrik Houthakker agree on about the chart in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature"?

10. What were the biggest issues with weather forecasting during Lorenz's time as described in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"? How is the Butterfly Effect defined?

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