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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations?
(a) Theoretical physics.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Fluid dynamics.
(d) Bifurcation theory.

2. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?
(a) Unstable.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Changing.
(d) Steady.

3. What studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?
(a) Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow.
(b) Nonlinear system.
(c) Butterfly effect.
(d) Chaos theory.

4. What is a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or tensile stress?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Viscosity.
(c) Gradient.
(d) Cosmic arrhythmias.

5. In the 1950s and 1960s what two technologies were maturing together, according to the author in Chapter 1, "The Butterfly Effect"?
(a) The automobile and space stellite.
(b) The space satellite and digital computer.
(c) The television and automobile.
(d) The digital computer and television.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Edward Lorenz born?

2. What did Foucault use as a way to demonstrate the earth's rotation, according to the author in Chapter 2, "Revolution"?

3. 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"?

4. What concept originated by Thomas S. Kuhn refers to the routine work of scientists experimenting within a paradigm, slowly accumulating detail in accord with established broad theory and not actually challenging or attempting to test the underlying assumptions of that theory?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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