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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Nothing but Music, The Essentials of Superstring Theory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of motion cannot be felt or sensed by the moving observer?
(a) Slowing or decelerating movement.
(b) Orbital movement around a star.
(c) Accelerating movement.
(d) Constant-velocity movement.

2. Which of the following theory was NOT developed in order to try to resolve the conflicts between quantum mechanics and general relativity?
(a) Quantum electrodynamics.
(b) Superstring theory.
(c) Quantum field theory.
(d) Inflationary theory.

3. Quantum electroweak theory concerns quantum mechanics and _____.
(a) The weak force.
(b) The strong force.
(c) The electromagnetic force.
(d) Gravity.

4. In quantum mechanics, what is symmetry breaking?
(a) When an asymmetrical matter and anti-matter pair is created.
(b) When the symmetry between a electrical and magnetic field is broken at high energy levels.
(c) When two fused fundamental forces become separated out.
(d) The primary reason that the theory is incompatible with general relativity.

5. If a clock were accelerated to nearly the speed of light for a year's time, which of the following would be true of its reading at the end of that time?
(a) It would be more than one year.
(b) It would be exactly equal to one year.
(c) It would be less than one year.
(d) Its reading would be random and meaningless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is correct about the speed at which light moves?

2. When the distance between two objects is doubled, what happens to the strength of the gravitational pull between them?

3. What characteristic did Werner Heisenberg discovered that some features of the universe at very small scales, and some properties of particle?

4. What property of electromagnetic waves did Max Planck solve the thermodynamic problem of the oven by discovering?

5. The smallest possible unit of energy is referred to as _____.

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