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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven, The Super in Superstring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the vibrational patterns that a string can exhibit called?
(a) Chords.
(b) Notes.
(c) Harmonics.
(d) Resonances.

2. Why are the fluctuations that quantum physics predicts not observable in everyday life?
(a) Most fluctuations are canceled out by electromagnetic waves, like light.
(b) The human brain filters them out.
(c) On large scales, the effects cancel each other out.
(d) The fluctuations only occur in deep space.

3. What is the shape of all particles, at the smallest possible level, according to string theory?
(a) An infinitely long string.
(b) A one-dimension loop.
(c) A tangled ball of thin filament.
(d) A thread of thin strings.

4. Which of the following is NOT an actual version of string theory?
(a) Fermionic type IV theory.
(b) Type I theory.
(c) Type IIA theory.
(d) Heterotic type O(32) theory.

5. Two theories form the basis of modern physics, but are incompatible with one another. String theory attempts to reconcile these fields. What are these two theories?
(a) Quantum mechanics and the photoelectric effect.
(b) Gravity and general relativity.
(c) General relativity and special relativity.
(d) General relativity and quantum mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Einstein considered time?

2. What are the characteristics of a wave?

3. The advent of fermionic vibrational patterns resulted in the creation of _____.

4. In Einstein's famous equation, E=mc^2, what does "c" represent?

5. How are the amplitude of a string's vibration and the mass of the particle it represents related?

(see the answer key)

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