A Brief History of Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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A Brief History of Time Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the categories of force-carrying virtual protons?
(a) Gluons.
(b) Gravityions.
(c) Electrons.
(d) Stickons.

2. If we created a black hole by exploding a very large hydrogen bomb what would happen?
(a) The inner solar system would be destroyed.
(b) The entire solar system would be destroyed.
(c) The sun would be destroyed.
(d) The entire world would be destroyed.

3. Who published a paper on Brownian motion in 1905?
(a) James Chadwick.
(b) Ernest Rutherford.
(c) Murray Gell-Mann.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. For satellites orbiting the earth, time does what in relation to the ground of the earth?
(a) Speeds up.
(b) Runs almost at the same pace.
(c) Slows down.
(d) Remains the same.

5. What is the unit of measurement for particle energy?
(a) Electric particle volts.
(b) Electric volts.
(c) Eclectic volts.
(d) Electron volts.

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

7. The idea of the big bang arises from what phenomena?
(a) The decreasing universe.
(b) The theory of relativity.
(c) The theory of light.
(d) The expanding universe.

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

9. What is one of the varieties of quarks?
(a) Strange.
(b) Quirky.
(c) Odd.
(d) Random.

10. Who created the relativity formula that states energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Newton.
(d) Galileo.

11. What is the name for the limit that states the smallest mass a star can have in order for it to produce a black hole?
(a) Torontareian limit.
(b) Subrahmanyan limit.
(c) Chandrasekhar limit.
(d) Rustinmaliyan limit.

12. The general theory of relativity best describes what world?
(a) The world of large objects in space.
(b) The world of high speeds.
(c) The world of galaxies.
(d) The world of large bodies of mass.

13. As an observer's velocity comes close to the speed of light, the observer's mass does what?
(a) Decreases to almost nothing.
(b) Covers more space.
(c) Increases to almost infinity.
(d) Stays the same.

14. Why did the Christian church adopt Ptolemy's view of the universe?
(a) Because it gives room for the Biblical account of creation.
(b) Because it gives room for the existence of heaven and hell.
(c) Because it gives room for the existence of other worlds.
(d) Because it gives room for the existence of God.

15. What theory best describes the singularities of black holes and big bangs?
(a) Theory of everything.
(b) Molecular engineering.
(c) Theory of relativity.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second?

2. Most people believe that since the universe had a beginning it must have a what?

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

4. How does Hawking define scientific theory?

5. Who proposed the elliptical orbits of the planets?

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