Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Chaos: Making a New Science Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What controversial book did Thomas S. Kuhn publish in 1962?
(a) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
(b) Fractals Everywhere.
(c) Period Three Implies Chaos.
(d) Physical Review Letters.

2. What is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Information theory.
(c) Economics.
(d) Chaos theory.

3. What is a sub-discipline of fluid mechanics that deals with the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion?
(a) Fluid dynamics.
(b) Theoretical physics.
(c) Fractal basin boundaries.
(d) Poincare conjecture.

4. What exists when a reversible reaction ceases to change its ratio of reactants/products, but substances move between the chemicals at an equal rate, meaning there is no net change?
(a) Energy.
(b) Cantor dust.
(c) Dynamic equilibrium.
(d) Euclidean space.

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.
(a) Incorrigible.
(b) Indistinguishable.
(c) Incommensurable.
(d) Incomprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Robert May born?

2. When was James Yorke born?

3. James Yorke is credited with creating what term in reference to science?

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

5. Although James Yorke was a brilliant mathematician, he often referred to himself as what?

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