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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What principle holds that there is an inverse relation between the fineness with which a particular's location can be determined and the fineness with which its velocity can be determined?
(a) The Golden Ratio.
(b) The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
(c) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(d) The Planck constant.

2. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?
(a) Germany.
(b) Belgium.
(c) France.
(d) Great Britain.

3. What rule in calculus uses derivatives to help evaluate limits involving indeterminate forms?
(a) General relativity.
(b) The Pythagorean Theorem.
(c) L'Hôpital's rule.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

4. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1559.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1646.

5. In the middle of the 20th Century, Hendrik Casmir and what other Dutch physicist proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms?
(a) Andrew Miller.
(b) Dirk Polder.
(c) James Washington.
(d) Peter Mitchell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lord Kelvin is well known for determining the correct value of absolute zero. Absolute zero is approximately what temperature Celsius?

2. What term refers to an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation?

3. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that India adopted a Babylonian style number system around what century?

4. What work by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations in Arabic?

5. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that Indian mathematicians first learned of zero from the Babylonians by way of what?

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