The Universe in a Nutshell Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Universe in a Nutshell Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 114 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Shape of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Einstein encourage to begin nuclear research?
(a) President Grant.
(b) President Johnson.
(c) President Truman.
(d) President Roosevelt.

2. What does supersymmetry imply?
(a) That gamma rays have a spin property.
(b) That particles had a spin property.
(c) That molecules have a spin property.
(d) That strings have a spin property.

3. Whom did Einstein later marry after his first marriage fell apart?
(a) His sister's friend Eleanor.
(b) His friend Margaret.
(c) His brother's sister Mary.
(d) His cousin Elsa.

4. What does Hawking believe any good scientific theory should be rooted in?
(a) The philosophy of science advanced by Karl Popper.
(b) The philosophy of George Markus.
(c) The work of mathematician Karl Popper.
(d) The scientific work of Isaac Newton.

5. What have serious effects on a quantum theory of gravity?
(a) Ground state fluctuations.
(b) Fourth state fluctuations.
(c) Third state fluctuations.
(d) Second state fluctuations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can quantum theory represent?

2. What was the twentieth century's other complete conceptual revolution?

3. What human conceptions did Einstein's papers change?

4. What was discovered in the 1970s that revealed a natural physical mechanism?

5. What does general relativity combine time with space to form?

(see the answer key)

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