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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. Navy.
(b) The Interior Department.
(c) The U.S. Coast Guard.
(d) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

2. James Yorke realized that one of the largest problems with his work was that mathematicians and physicists were often worlds apart because they did not what?
(a) Follow the same rules.
(b) Report to work at the same time.
(c) Speak the same language.
(d) Use the same equipment.

3. Through this work on the study of quantum behavior of superfluid helium, Albert Libchaber invented what?
(a) Helium in a Box.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Euclidean space.
(d) Fractal compression.

4. What is a concept in mathematics where a fixed rule describes the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space?
(a) Boundary layer.
(b) Pattern formation.
(c) Dynamical system.
(d) Oscillation.

5. What were the subjects allowed to glance at one at a time in the experiment from the 1940s described by Gleick in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?
(a) Nature photographs.
(b) Playing cards.
(c) Postage stamps.
(d) Ink blots.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Mitchell Feigenbaum complete his doctorate with a thesis on dispersion relations?

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

3. From what institution did Heinz-Otto Peitgen earn his Ph.D.?

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

5. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

(see the answer key)

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