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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Need for a New Theory, General Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result when a particle of matter and a particle of antimatter are brought into contact?
(a) A theoretically unlimited amount of energy is released.
(b) Energy is released and both particles are destroyed.
(c) A strange quark is formed.
(d) A black hole is formed.

2. In 1968 it was discovered that protons and neutrons are composed of which type of particle?
(a) Muons.
(b) Quarks.
(c) Neutrinos.
(d) Baryons.

3. Quantum physics began with the study of the energy inside a heated, closed container, such as an oven. The problem with theories at the time was that they predicted that _____.
(a) The oven contains no energy.
(b) The oven can store more energy the smaller it is.
(c) The oven contains infinite energy.
(d) The oven can only store energy if it has no mass.

4. Which of the following is a correct statement, based on the theory of special relativity?
(a) Energy only exists relative to mass.
(b) Time and space are not experienced exactly the same by all observers
(c) Time is always the same to all observers, but space is not.
(d) Movement can only be measured relative to very massive objects, such as stars.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not true according to special relativity?

2. Which of the following is not one of the four fundamental forces of the universe?

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

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

5. What property of electromagnetic waves did Max Planck solve the thermodynamic problem of the oven by discovering?

(see the answer key)

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