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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 Conclusion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Heisenberg and Erwin Shrodinger developed what reformulation of standard mechanics?
(a) Atomic mechanics.
(b) Relativity mechanics.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Theoretical mechanics.

2. To illustrate the concept of disorder in a system, Hawking uses what example in Chapter 9?
(a) A car crash.
(b) A broken vase.
(c) A jigsaw puzzle.
(d) A bag of marbles.

3. What is another name for combination of operations?
(a) Factors.
(b) Equations.
(c) Differentials.
(d) Symmetries.

4. What might escape from a black hole?
(a) Something with more gravitational force than a black hole.
(b) Photons.
(c) Gamma rays.
(d) Nothing.

5. In what year did Wolfgang Pauli bring the exclusion principle to physics?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fate of black holes according to Hawking's model of the universe?

2. A location on earth's surface is defined by what?

3. What is another name for a neutron star?

4. What is one of the colors of quarks?

5. Hawking argues that randomness must exist to a certain degree due to what?

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