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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: Electricity and Automation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one have to understand in order to understand the way things work?
(a) The terms of physics.
(b) The function of something.
(c) The reason something is made.
(d) The underlying principle.

2. What happens when electrons are rubbed, shuffled, or brushed off one surface onto another?
(a) Static electricity.
(b) Homeostasis.
(c) Hydrogenation.
(d) Homogenization.

3. What is one component of a lever?
(a) A spring.
(b) A screw.
(c) A caliper.
(d) A straight edge.

4. What do compound levers contain?
(a) No fulcrum but two points of force and two of load.
(b) Two fulcrums and one point of force and load.
(c) A single fulcrum and two points of force and two of load.
(d) Two fulcrums and two points of force and two of load.

5. What is any engine that burns fuel inside the engine?
(a) Internal combustion engine.
(b) Thermodynamic engine.
(c) Steam engine.
(d) Nuclear fusion engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs when very small atoms smash together?

2. Of what is color photography paper made when printing from a negative?

3. How do mirrors reflect an image?

4. How many type of waves are discussed by Macaulay?

5. What controls direction on a ship?

(see the answer key)

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