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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hawking is what type of physicist?
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Astro.
(c) Micro.
(d) Particle.

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

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

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

5. Who brought forth the idea that the earth and planets revolve around the sun?
(a) Ptolemy.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?

2. As an observer's velocity comes close to the speed of light, the observer's mass does what?

3. The development of what kind of technology depends upon the theory of quantum mechanics?

4. What is the unit of measurement for particle energy?

5. Aristotle thought that the Earth was what?

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