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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 The Origin and Fate of the Universe.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The universe is largely made up of what?
(a) Planets.
(b) Dark matter.
(c) Empty space.
(d) Stars.

2. How many questions are left unanswered prior to the development of math that incorporates quantum mechanics?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

3. When was the uncertainty principle developed?
(a) 1929.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

4. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?
(a) In orbit around the sun.
(b) Bigger than the sun.
(c) Its own galaxy.
(d) Stationary.

5. Who proposed the elliptical orbits of the planets?
(a) Kepler.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the particles that make up light?

2. As a consequence of quantum mechanics, waves sometimes behave like what?

3. The general theory of relativity best describes what world?

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

5. Groups of atoms create what?

(see the answer key)

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