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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?
(a) Leptons.
(b) Bosons.
(c) Particles.
(d) Astronomical units.

2. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Quantum flux.
(d) Heliocentricism.

3. What refers to one of the extremely small constituents of matter, as an atom or nucleus?
(a) Particle.
(b) Parallax.
(c) Retrograde motion.
(d) Micrometer.

4. In the world of quantum physics, fermions comprise matter and bosons convey what?
(a) Force.
(b) Radiology.
(c) Dark matter.
(d) Mass.

5. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

2. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?

3. When did Galileo Galilei die?

4. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?

5. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?

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