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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the uncertainty principle developed?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1929.
2. Quanta are made of what?
(a) Packets of emitted electromagnetic radiation.
(b) Packets of emitted hydroelectric radiation.
(c) Packets of emitted astroelectric radiation.
(d) Packets of emitted gamma radiation.
3. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?
(a) Religious reasoning.
(b) Disciplined logic.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Circular arguments.
4. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?
(a) A middle.
(b) A timeline.
(c) An end.
(d) A birth.
5. What is one of the categories of force-carrying virtual protons?
(a) Gluons.
(b) Stickons.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Gravityions.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is another name for a neutron star?
2. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?
3. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?
4. Why do the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity need to be unified?
5. Scientists try to create explanations for the way the universe works that always do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are quanta?
2. Due to the influences of mass and energy, light does what?
3. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?
4. What model of the atom persisted until the 1960's?
5. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?
6. What is the uncertainty principle?
7. Why can nothing move faster than the speed of light according to the theory of relativity?
8. The mathematical formulas that result from a scientific model of the universe must do what?
9. What will happen if the expansion of the universe stops?
10. When looking at the sky on a clear night what do you see and how far away is it?
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