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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the middle of the 20th Century, Hendrik Casmir and what other Dutch physicist proposed the existence of a force between two polarizable atoms?
(a) Dirk Polder.
(b) Andrew Miller.
(c) James Washington.
(d) Peter Mitchell.

2. Any number multiplied by zero equals what?
(a) 0.
(b) 15.
(c) 1.
(d) -100.

3. The USS Yorktown was located off the coast of what location when the computer systems malfunctioned in September of 1997?
(a) Havana, Cuba.
(b) Del Norte, California.
(c) Cape Charles, Virginia.
(d) New York, New York.

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

5. In September of 1997, a crewmember entered a zero into the database field on the computers of the USS Yorktown, leading to what type of error?
(a) An addition by zero error.
(b) A subtraction by zero error.
(c) A multiply by zero error.
(d) A divide by zero error.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Sir Isaac Newton live?

2. The ancient Egyptians are credited with creating what numerical system?

3. What name refers to sutra texts belonging to the Śrauta ritual and containing geometry related to fire-altar construction?

4. What refers to a system in which the location of a point is given by coordinates that represent its distances from perpendicular lines that intersect at a point called the origin?

5. What term refers to a formal system in which formulae of a formal language may be interpreted to be representing propositions?

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