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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stephen Hawking has what disease?

2. Who created the idea that a star can collapse and become a black hole?

3. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?

4. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?

5. Aristotle and who believed that time is not absolute?

Short Essay Questions

1. What model of the atom persisted until the 1960's?

2. What are some characteristics of a black hole?

3. What are quanta?

4. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

5. Why do scientists think that there is a black hole in the star system Cygnus X-1?

6. What is the difference between the Aristotelian approach to science and Galileo's approach?

7. What is one implication of the theory of relativity?

8. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?

9. What will happen if the expansion of the universe stops?

10. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the theory of relativity? How is the theory of relativity important, and related to, the understanding of the universe? Please use the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What is a simile and metaphor? Why does Hawking use similes and metaphors in his book? Using examples from the book, discuss which simile and metaphor are the most effective and why.

Essay Topic 3

Using the book to support your answer, answer the following question: Was there a beginning of time and will there be an end?

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