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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a name of a paper that Archimedes wrote about arithmetic?
2. What word means balance?
3. How many different sciences did Archimedes begin?
4. In how many books that Archimedes sent to his friends, did he make deliberate errors?
5. If you took a sphere and made a cylinder whose base was the greatest circle of the sphere and whose height was the diameter of the sphere, how much space or volume would the cylinder take up compared to the sphere?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do people know that some of Archimedes' writing have been lost?
2. Describe Marcellus' fleet that he sent to attack Syracuse.
3. What is a chain reaction in a nuclear explosion?
4. Why is Archimedes' "Method" so important to all mathematicians who followed him?
5. Why isn't the center of gravity always at the center of an object?
6. What did Archimedes consider to be his most important work?
7. Describe Carthage.
8. Why is it possible for a person to balance standing on one foot?
9. What is the center of gravity?
10. Why did Marcellus watch the battle for Syracuse with tears in his eyes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The title of the book, "Archimedes and the Door of Science," is an analogy that relates Archimedes' contributions in the fields of science and mathematics and the value of those contributions to scientists and mathematicians who followed him. Discuss how Archimedes opened a door to science.
Essay Topic 2
Archimedes thought about and experimented with equilibrium and centers of gravity. Discuss centers of gravity and what Archimedes learned about the subject.
Essay Topic 3
Archimedes used a machine to move a heavy ship. Discuss machines and how they work.
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