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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rayleigh–Jeans law agrees with experimental results at large wavelengths but strongly disagrees at short wavelengths. What is this inconsistency known as?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) The ultraviolet catastrophe.
(d) A black hole.

2. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
(a) Circular movement.
(b) Elliptical orbits.
(c) Circular orbits.
(d) Movement.

3. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?
(a) Shulba Sutras.
(b) Yogi Sutras.
(c) Shavi Sutras.
(d) The Kartikeya.

4. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?
(a) The Spanish Inquisition.
(b) The Roman conquest.
(c) The British Empire.
(d) The Greek conquest.

5. Approximately when did Johannes Kepler live?
(a) 1571-1630.
(b) 1611-1669.
(c) 1501-1559.
(d) 1489-1550.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?

2. What term refers to a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping?

3. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?

4. The House of Wisdom was based in Baghdad during what centuries?

5. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

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