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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. Who said, "God does not play dice."
(a) Werner Heisenberg.
(b) Max Plank.
(c) Erwin Schrodinger.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

3. What shape did Aristotle think the Earth was?
(a) Flat.
(b) Oval.
(c) A disk.
(d) A sphere.

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

5. The universe has how many dimensions?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?

2. A black hole has zero what?

3. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?

4. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?

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

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