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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Calculus allowed Newton to combine the known natural laws of physics into one grand set of laws that could be expressed as what?
(a) String theory.
(b) M-Theory.
(c) Differential equations.
(d) The Golden Ratio.

2. Bishop Berkeley was a philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called what?
(a) “String theory.”
(b) “Calculus.”
(c) "Immaterialism."
(d) “The Golden Ratio.”

3. The author asserts in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that today astronomers estimate the universe as being how old?
(a) 4 billion years.
(b) 2 billion years.
(c) 15 billion years.
(d) 10 billion years.

4. In what year did Albert Einstein publish a paper that explained experimental data from the photoelectric effect, leading to the quantum revolution?
(a) 1926.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1942.

5. Approximately when did Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi live?
(a) 780-850 AD.
(b) 410-500 AD.
(c) 240-200 BC.
(d) 159-201 AD.

Short Answer Questions

1. The system that equipped the USS Yorktown in 1996 and 1997 was predicted to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship’s complement by what percentage?

2. What refers to the mean obtained by taking the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocals of a set of nonzero numbers?

3. The introduction of nothingness and zero into Jewish theology led in part to what offshoot Jewish mysticism?

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

5. Where was Lord Kelvin born?

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