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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Protecting the Past.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Schrodinger equation specify?
(a) The rate at which light function changes with speed.
(b) The rate at which bell curves change with motion.
(c) The rate at which satellites operate particle states.
(d) The rate at which wave function changes with time.

2. What does time have?
(a) A presence.
(b) A shape.
(c) A mark.
(d) A being.

3. What does Hawking explain particles do not have?
(a) Easily-shaped positions.
(b) Well-defined positions or velocities.
(c) Round-bodied physics.
(d) Molecular shapes.

4. What are wormholes?
(a) Molecules of open space.
(b) Tubes of spacetime that connect different regions of space and time.
(c) Holes between which space and time travel.
(d) Units of spacetime that connect similar regions of space and time.

5. What equation shows mass and energy are equivalent?
(a) G = cm2.
(b) G = mc3.
(c) E = cm3.
(d) E = mc2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the p-brane model show about information?

2. Who produced the theory about curved spaces?

3. Which project produced Fat Man and Little Boy?

4. What were Fat Man and Little Boy dropped on in 1945?

5. What is determinism threatened by?

(see the answer key)

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