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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the body of scientific principles that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and atomic particles?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) The Tychonic system.

2. What was a model of the solar system published by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century which combined what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic system?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Quantum flux.
(d) Heliocentricism.

3. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Grow moss.
(b) Stay at rest.
(c) Start moving.
(d) Dissipate.

4. Although the behavior of gravitation still holds in Einstein's theory of relativity, there is a breakdown when it comes to gravitational fields within what?
(a) Quantum leaps.
(b) Black holes.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Observational astronomy.

5. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?
(a) Descartes'.
(b) Plato's.
(c) Aristotle's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galileo published his findings in what book?

2. In Chapter 9, the author discusses how there were two schools of thought about elliptical nebulae. One was the theory of what by Kant and Lambert?

3. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?

4. What refers to motion in the direction opposite to the movement of something else, and is the contrary of direct or prograde motion?

5. The man who associated the red-shift of the galaxies with Einstein's relativity was a Belgian priest and mathematician named what?

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