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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Uncertainty Principle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Quanta are made of what?
(a) Packets of emitted hydroelectric radiation.
(b) Packets of emitted gamma radiation.
(c) Packets of emitted electromagnetic radiation.
(d) Packets of emitted astroelectric radiation.

2. Who created the law of motion?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Newton.
(d) Hawking.

3. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?
(a) Cell phones.
(b) Liquid crystal displays.
(c) Silicon transmisions.
(d) Microelectronics.

4. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?
(a) Waves.
(b) Electrons.
(c) Light.
(d) Sound.

5. In what year did Stephen Hawking enter the Royal Society of London?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1972.

Short Answer Questions

1. Groups of atoms create what?

2. Who proposed the idea that there are such things called quanta?

3. When was the uncertainty principle developed?

4. Who discovered the theory of gravity?

5. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?

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