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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?
(a) An Alhazen’s telescope.
(b) A reflecting telescope.
(c) A chromatic telescope.
(d) A refracting telescope.

3. How is the Planck relation expressed?
(a) E=mc⅍.
(b) E=xy.
(c) E=hv.
(d) E=mvi.

4. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?
(a) Dualism.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Polytheism.
(d) Creationism.

5. Quantum mechanics eliminated zero in classical thermodynamics by removing what, according to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros”?
(a) Gravity.
(b) Infinite energy.
(c) Magnetism.
(d) Electron pull.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured” that for the Indians, numerals without geometric significance gave birth to what field of mathematics?

3. What term refers to a physical constant that is the quantum of action in quantum mechanics?

4. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?

5. What word did the Arabs use for zero during Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi’s time?

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