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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Indians adopted a Babylonian style number system, its base was what, according to the author in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 10.

2. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” thermodynamics have taught us that there are many things we cannot do, such as building what?
(a) An adequate polarizing system.
(b) A lunar calendar.
(c) A perpetual motion machine.
(d) A solar calendar.

3. What term refers to the worship of multiple deities?
(a) Monotheism.
(b) Omnitheism.
(c) Polytheism.
(d) Atertheism.

4. 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) One.
(b) Zero.
(c) The sun.
(d) Pi.

5. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1611.
(b) 1559.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1646.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?

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. Where was Lord Kelvin born?

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

5. In what year did Albert Einstein publish a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect, leading to the quantum revolution?

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