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Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz

James Gleick
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Chaos.

Take our free Chaos quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What mathematical term refers to a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system in a discrete dynamical system? (from chapters 7-8)

2.

According to Gleick, Albert Libchaber had a similar background to who, living as a refugee during World War II? (from chapters 7-8)

3.

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? (from Chapters 5-6)

4.

What refers to a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole? (from Chapters 5-6)

5.

Where was Benoit Mandelbrot born? (from Chapters 3-4)

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