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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. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Claudius Ptolemy.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Eudoxus.

2. What refers to the region of city-states in ancient Mesopotamia?
(a) Indochina.
(b) Lemuria.
(c) Sumeria.
(d) Egypt.

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) Gaining or losing energy.
(b) Gaining or losing heat.
(c) Traversing the intervening space.
(d) Gaining momentum.

4. 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?
(a) Leptons.
(b) Bosons.
(c) Nuclei.
(d) Micrometers.

5. The "probability" nature of quantum physics bothered what physicist who thought a some point a quantum theory of certitudes would be developed?
(a) Robert Hooke.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Jean Richer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which astronomer discovered that some nebulae had spiral structures?

2. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?

3. The Age of Discovery was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into what century?

4. William Herschel became most famous for the discovery of which planet?

5. Isaac Newton developed a theory on gravitation and in doing so demolished whose dual universe?

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