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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The National Weather Service is one of the six scientific agencies that make up what division of the U.S. Government?
(a) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The U.S. Navy.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
2. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?
(a) Turbulence.
(b) Fractal.
(c) Viscosity.
(d) Energy.
3. Where was Robert May born?
(a) Berlin, Germany.
(b) Cairo, Egypt.
(c) Sydney, Australia.
(d) Tokyo, Japan.
4. Who is attributed with the following quote from Chapter 6, "Universality": "The iterating of these lines brings gold; the framing of this circle on the ground brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning"?
(a) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
(b) Dr. Faustus.
(c) Mitchell Feigenbaum.
(d) Lewis F. Richardson.
5. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Euclidean space.
(b) Helium in a Box.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Fractal compression.
Short Answer Questions
1. What book did Michael Barnsley publish in 1988?
2. Where was Thomas S. Kuhn born?
3. When did Albert Libchaber join the faculty at The Rockefeller University?
4. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
5. When was Steven Smale born?
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