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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine: The Smoking Gun, Experimental Signatures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the 1800s, James Clerk Maxwell used a new mathematical framework to unite _____.
(a) Nuclear forces and gravity.
(b) Electricity and magnetism.
(c) Magnetism and gravity.
(d) Magnetism and light.

2. Which of the following is true regarding the mass and spin of a pair of superpartners?
(a) They have unrelated masses, and their spins differ by 1.
(b) They have the same mass and spin.
(c) They have the same mass, and their spins differ by 1/2.
(d) Their masses and spins are not related.

3. What does the quantum electroweak theory state about the two fundamental forces it describes?
(a) They are identical at quantum scales.
(b) In four-dimensional space, they are the same thing.
(c) They only interact at the Planck length and below.
(d) At extreme energy and temperature conditions, they become the same thing.

4. If a clock were accelerated to nearly the speed of light for a year's time, which of the following would be true of its reading at the end of that time?
(a) It would be more than one year.
(b) Its reading would be random and meaningless.
(c) It would be less than one year.
(d) It would be exactly equal to one year.

5. What are the characteristics of a wave?
(a) Amplitude and energy.
(b) Energy level, polarity, and speed.
(c) Frequency, polarity, and wavelength.
(d) Frequency, wavelength, and amplitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to special relativity, which of the following is true about the passage of time for an observer moving near the speed of light?

2. The number of family groups corresponds to a feature of the Calabi-Yau shape. What is this feature?

3. What rule did Max Planck discover the electromagnetic waves bounded in a container, such as an oven, must follow?

4. What is the quantum, or messenger particle, of gravity?

5. Which of the following is NOT an actual version of string theory?

(see the answer key)

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