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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to a physical constant that is the quantum of action in quantum mechanics?
(a) M-Theory.
(b) The Pythagorean theorem.
(c) The Golden Ratio.
(d) The Planck constant.

2. Where does the author say early medieval Jews took up residence and discovered that Aristotle’s aversion to zero contradicted Jewish theology in Chapter 3, “Nothing Ventured”?
(a) South America.
(b) Muslim Spain.
(c) Rome.
(d) Ancient Egypt.

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

4. The ancient Mayans used a numeral system that was based on what increment?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

5. What term refers to a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping?
(a) Black hole.
(b) Omicron.
(c) Derivative.
(d) Limit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pythagoreanism was a cult that greatly influenced what philosophical system?

2. The author states in Chapter 2, “Nothing Comes of Nothing” that the concepts of infinity and the void frightened the ancient Greeks. They feared the infinite because it threatened the possibility of what?

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

4. In what year did Albert Einstein publish a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect, leading to the quantum revolution?

5. What refers to an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to take integer values only?

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