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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?
(a) Strings.
(b) Quanta.
(c) Photons.
(d) Derivatives.

2. When did Sir Isaac Newton live?
(a) 1559-1601.
(b) 1707-1746.
(c) 1642-1727.
(d) 1624-1680.

3. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?
(a) An Alhazen’s telescope.
(b) A refracting telescope.
(c) A reflecting telescope.
(d) A chromatic telescope.

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?
(a) The 2nd to 6th centuries.
(b) The 5th to 7th centuries.
(c) The 9th to 13th centuries.
(d) The 12th to 17th centuries.

5. The Rayleigh–Jeans law revealed an important error in physics theory of its time. The law predicted an energy output that diverges towards infinity as wavelength approaches what?
(a) The sun.
(b) Pi.
(c) Zero.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. What 12 Century rabbi sought to reconcile Greek philosophy with the Semitic Bible?

2. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?

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