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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An electron has what kind of electric charge?
(a) Degenerative.
(b) Positive.
(c) Negative.
(d) Neutral.

2. A primary difficulty in the creation of a “Theory of Everything” is that most attempts to apply quantum mechanics to the gravitational field in the same way as for the electromagnetic field fails due to the breakdown of what?
(a) The renormalization procedure.
(b) Differential equations.
(c) The gravitational pull.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

3. What term refers to an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation?
(a) Photon.
(b) Radon.
(c) Electron.
(d) Nucleus.

4. In physics or chemistry, what term refers to particles that are smaller than an atom?
(a) Subatomic particles.
(b) Derivative particles.
(c) Static particles.
(d) Bionic particles.

5. During what years did Georg Cantor live?
(a) 1811-1878.
(b) 1845-1918.
(c) 1777-1836.
(d) 1689-1759.

6. When was Bernhard Riemann born?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1629.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1896.

7. Where was Carl Gauss from?
(a) Belgium.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

8. Jean le Rond d'Alembert came up with what idea that solved the zero problem in calculus?
(a) An equation.
(b) A limit.
(c) A quanta.
(d) A derivative.

9. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Great Britain.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

10. Georg Cantor is best known as the inventor of what fundamental theory in mathematics?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) Set theory.
(c) String theory.
(d) Quantum theory.

11. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?
(a) Quantum foam.
(b) Quantum gravity.
(c) Quantum disparity.
(d) Quantum memory.

12. Carl Gauss referred to mathematics as what?
(a) “The key to philosophy.”
(b) “The end of science.”
(c) “The queen of sciences.”
(d) “Theology’s twin.”

13. 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?
(a) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(b) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
(c) The Planck constant.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical term refers to a function that preserves distinctness by never mapping distinct elements of its domain to the same element of its codomain?

2. What term refers to a physical constant that is the quantum of action in quantum mechanics?

3. 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?

4. The Rayleigh–Jeans law agrees with experimental results at large wavelengths but strongly disagrees at short wavelengths. What is this inconsistency known as?

5. What refers to the branch of mathematics concerned with finding tangent lines to curves, areas under curves, minima and maxima, and other geometric and analytic problems?

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