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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. Philosophers try to understand the universe using what method?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Religious reasoning.
(c) Disciplined logic.
(d) Circular arguments.

2. In order to explain how black holes become a big bang, Hawking needs to include what?
(a) The theory of everything.
(b) Particle physics.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The theory of relativity.

3. Hawking co-authored a paper in what year that explains the big bang theory?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.

4. When Hubble discovered other galaxies, in what direction were they moving?
(a) Away from earth.
(b) Towards earth.
(c) Towards each other.
(d) Away from each other.

5. Scientists start their understanding of the universe with what?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Observations and mathematics.
(c) A theory.
(d) Observations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Light moves along what sort of lines?

2. Who wrote the introduction?

3. Galileo found the moons of what planet using his telescope?

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

5. The only constant in the universe is what?

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