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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 astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?
(a) Heliocentricism.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) Triangulation.

2. What Arabic secret society published tables of planetary distances that had been calculated by Aristarchus?
(a) The Scientific Mathematics.
(b) The Brothers of Peace.
(c) The Brethren of Purity.
(d) The Arabic Society.

3. Newton's first law expanded on the theory of inertia by asserting that an object stays in motion unless it is what?
(a) Disrupted by another force.
(b) Affected by radiation.
(c) Tilted toward negative energy.
(d) Magnetic.

4. Eudoxus went on to establish his own observatory where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) China.
(c) The Nile.
(d) Athens.

5. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Alchemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who elevated spectroscopy to an exact science?

3. Who wrote the work "Mathematical Syntaxis"?

4. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?

5. 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?

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