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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was with Bohr when he worked out complementarity?
(a) Heisenberg
(b) Nobody
(c) Margrethe
(d) A team of researchers
2. How old was Bohr when Heisenberg first visited Copenhagen?
(a) 22
(b) 28
(c) 38
(d) 32
3. What is Bohr’s criticism of Heisenberg’s thought process?
(a) He doesn’t care about science
(b) He only cares about practicalities
(c) He doesn’t care about the political repercussions of his work
(d) He only cares about math
4. What event took place the year Heisenberg first came to Copenhagen?
(a) Margrethe gave birth to a son
(b) Heisenberg was married
(c) The Bohrs were married
(d) The Bohrs had a daughter
5. What was Heisenberg’s main scientific achievement?
(a) A series of mathematical proofs
(b) His uncertainty paper
(c) His work on the atom with Bohr
(d) His wave theorem
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Heisenberg claim that Bohr is illustrating as he discusses the aforementioned problem?
2. How did Bohr almost kill Kramers?
3. Where were Heisenberg’s rooms in 1924?
4. What critical mass did Heisenberg think was needed for the bomb?
5. What is accurate about Heisenberg’s illustration of his theory?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Bohr react during the events of Christian’s death?
2. What were the conditions under which Heisenberg was allowed to practice science after the war?
3. What was strange about the cadmium that Heisenberg had in Haigerloch?
4. Where does Heisenberg spend the last months of the war, and why?
5. When did Fermi achieve the first self-sustaining chain reaction, in relationship to Heisenberg?
6. What extreme act does Heisenberg claim that Bohr would have been justified in doing?
7. Why didn’t the worst happen to the reactor in Haigerloch?
8. What was the impetus for Heisenberg’s attaining the chair at Leipzig?
9. What is Heisenberg’s plan (according to him, in present day) for talking to Bohr about the atomic project?
10. Who oversees Heisenberg’s research in Germany?
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