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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All the particles in the universe are what type of spin?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Zero.
(d) One-half.

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

3. Which virtual particle carries the electromagnetic force?
(a) Photon.
(b) Proton.
(c) Magnetron.
(d) Electron.

4. The theory of quantum mechanics best describes what world?
(a) The small world of molecules.
(b) The small world of atoms.
(c) The small world of particles.
(d) The small world of sub-atomic particles.

5. The disease Stephen Hawking has affects what?
(a) His ability to reason.
(b) His body.
(c) His mind.
(d) His emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. The only constant in the universe is what?

2. Who said, "God does not play dice."

3. Who discovered the theory of gravity?

4. Quanta are made of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one way that scientists determine that subatomic particles exist?

2. What determines whether a star can become a black hole?

3. The mathematical formulas that result from a scientific model of the universe must do what?

4. What happens at the event horizon of a black hole?

5. Scientists start with observations and mathematics to answer the fundamental questions and then do what?

6. In 1687 Newton published mathematical formulas that do what?

7. What was the Ancient Greek view of the universe?

8. What stops quantum mechanics from explaining everything in the universe?

9. How did Einstein observe Brownian motion?

10. What is the difference between the Aristotelian approach to science and Galileo's approach?

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