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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?
(a) Sufism.
(b) Hasidism.
(c) Kabbalism.
(d) Orthodoxy.

2. What term refers to an elementary particle, the quantum of light and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation?
(a) Nucleus.
(b) Electron.
(c) Radon.
(d) Photon.

3. In quantum mechanics, the concept of de Broglie waves reflects what?
(a) The gravitational pull of the earth’s poles.
(b) The wave-particle duality of matter.
(c) The Big Bang Theory.
(d) The emergence of black holes.

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” thermodynamics led physicists to believe that light was not a particle but what?
(a) An electron.
(b) An electromagnetic wave.
(c) A vibrating string.
(d) A proton.

5. Absolute zero has no energy and is unattainable for what reason?
(a) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires string distribution.
(b) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires infinity.
(c) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero requires a black hole.
(d) Any attempt to get a space to absolute zero exerts energy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?

4. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?

5. Where was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from?

(see the answer key)

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