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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "Physics in Desert Country".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) Max von Laue.

2. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?
(a) The War Office.
(b) The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute.
(c) Hans Geiger.
(d) Otto Hahn.

3. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?
(a) Quantum mechanics.
(b) Aeronautical physics.
(c) Theoretical physics.
(d) Experimental physics.

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1949.

5. Who works with Rutherford to develop a counter for alpha particles?
(a) J.J. Thompson.
(b) Edward Teller.
(c) Hans Gieger.
(d) John von Neumann.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who creates the greatest school of theoretical physics in the United States at Berkeley, CA, in the late 1930's/early 1940's?

2. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?

3. Who conceives the atomic bomb?

4. When does World War II begin?

5. What can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

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