View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was William Herschel born?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1845.

2. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

3. In Chapter 15, the author writes that physicists learned that when an electron was elevated into a higher orbit, it moved from lower to higher orbit without what?
(a) Traversing the intervening space.
(b) Gaining or losing heat.
(c) Gaining momentum.
(d) Gaining or losing energy.

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

5. Approximately when was Eudoxus of Cnidus born?
(a) 128 A.D.
(b) 410 B.C.
(c) 218 B.C.
(d) 355 B.C.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

3. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?

4. What ancient people thought of the sky as a canopy supported by the mountains, according to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven"?

5. In the world of quantum physics, there are two categories of particles: particles with fractional spin called fermions and those of integer spin, called what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 233 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample