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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.

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"? (from chapters 9-11)

3.

What was Edward Spiegel's specialty, discussed in Chapter 9, "The Dynamical Systems Collective"? (from chapters 9-11)

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.

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? (from chapters 9-11)

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