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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Machines".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?
(a) Heidegger.
(b) Kant.
(c) Kierkegaard.
(d) Rousseau.

2. Who founds big-machine physics in America?
(a) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) Ernest Lawrence.
(c) Rolf Wideroe.
(d) James Chadwick.

3. Who designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Rutherford.
(b) Chadwick.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Lawrence.

4. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Niels Bohr.

5. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

2. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

3. After finishing his Ph.D., where does Bohr start work?

4. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?

5. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

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