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

2. What characteristic did Werner Heisenberg discovered that some features of the universe at very small scales, and some properties of particle?
(a) They are dependant on the velocity of the object being studied.
(b) They cannot be known with complete precision.
(c) They can change spontaneously, with no external influence.
(d) They always increase or decrease by certain increments.

3. Quantum electroweak theory concerns quantum mechanics and _____.
(a) The weak force.
(b) The strong force.
(c) Gravity.
(d) The electromagnetic force.

4. Which physicist is credited with discovering that light is composed of particles?
(a) Rutherford.
(b) Planck.
(c) Maxwell.
(d) Einstein.

5. Which of the following theory was NOT developed in order to try to resolve the conflicts between quantum mechanics and general relativity?
(a) Superstring theory.
(b) Quantum field theory.
(c) Quantum electrodynamics.
(d) Inflationary theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following accurately describes the phenomenon of "quantum tunneling"?

2. What type of motion cannot be felt or sensed by the moving observer?

3. Which of the following qualities must a physical law have in order to be considered symmetric?

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

5. Which of the following is true regarding our current knowledge of the Calabi-Yau space?

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