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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Rayleigh–Jeans law revealed an important error in physics theory of its time. The law predicted an energy output that diverges towards infinity as wavelength approaches what?
(a) Zero.
(b) One.
(c) The sun.
(d) Pi.

2. The Renaissance roughly spanned the period of what centuries?
(a) The 16th to the 19th Centuries.
(b) The 9th to the 14th Centuries.
(c) The 10th to the 12th Centuries.
(d) The 14th to the 17th Centuries.

3. What mathematical term refers to a function giving an exact pairing of the elements of two sets?
(a) Bijection.
(b) Injection.
(c) Derivation.
(d) Infinity.

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

5. The author says in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin” that by employing the concept of infinity, Johannes Kepler showed that ellipses and what were the same?
(a) Limits.
(b) Tangents.
(c) Derivatives.
(d) Parabolas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his “discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”?

2. Pythagoreanism developed into two separate schools of thought. What group was called “the listeners” in Greek?

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

4. What term refers to the religious or philosophical concept that the soul is reborn after biological death?

5. Bernhard Riemann was able to show how to generate the geometry for what, according to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin”?

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