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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 resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Quantum flux.
(c) Inertia.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

2. When was Aristotle born?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 384 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 385 B.C.

3. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) The Ptolemaic system.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) Quantum flux.
(d) The Tychonic system.

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

5. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who concluded that the process of the earth's creation was part of an infinite repeating cycle of development and destruction?

2. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

3. Where was William Herschel from?

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?

5. Where was Galileo Galilei from?

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