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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what period of time did Schrodinger's wife make more as a secretary than he did in a year as a professor?
2. During World War II, how tall was a column of smoke that the British detonated on Heligoland?
3. After the war, how long did Schrodinger notice it took for women to dismember a horse after a mob knocked a policeman off his horse?
4. What filled Miss Herwig's room?
5. After Grothendieck's father was sentenced to death for how many weeks was he taken before the firing squad daily before he was condemned to live in prison?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Heisenberg go to Heligoland in June 1925?
2. What regimen did Heisenberg follow during his first days in Heligoland?
3. What was Grothendieck's project at the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies?
4. What system did Heisenberg create using only direct observation?
5. How did de Broglie end his career?
6. What did Einstein say about Heisenberg's ideas?
7. When and how did Shinichi Mochizuki publish a proof for a + b = c?
8. What deprivations did Erwin Schrodinger suffer during the interwar period?
9. What analogy is used to describe Heisenberg's discovery?
10. How did de Broglie become interested in science?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Schrodinger used metaphors to describe subatomic particles. How did he use metaphors to describe subatomic particles? Why did Werner Heisenberg hate using metaphors for subatomic particles and what did he believe should be used instead?
Essay Topic 2
The book and section four are titled When We Cease to Understand the World. How does the title of the book and the title of section four relate to the theme of the incomprehensibility of the world?
Essay Topic 3
Schwarzchild created a makeshift telescope when he was seven. What accomplishments did Schwarzchild have by the time he was 28? Was he a prodigy?
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