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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?
(a) Quantum gravity.
(b) Quantum foam.
(c) Quantum disparity.
(d) Quantum memory.

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

3. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity's Twin,” “i” appears whenever one takes the square root of what?
(a) A fraction.
(b) Zero.
(c) Infinity.
(d) A negative number.

4. The name “electron” was introduced in 1891 by what Irish physicist?
(a) George Johnstone Stoney.
(b) Sir Isaac Newton.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Galileo Galilei.

5. When was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born?
(a) 1559.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1646.

6. What term in theoretical physics refers to an extension of string theory in which 11 dimensions of spacetime are identified?
(a) M-theory.
(b) Planck theory.
(c) Space theory.
(d) Big Bang theory.

7. In physics or chemistry, what term refers to particles that are smaller than an atom?
(a) Static particles.
(b) Derivative particles.
(c) Bionic particles.
(d) Subatomic particles.

8. What term refers to the viewpoint that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Absurdism.
(c) Rationalism.
(d) Archism.

9. When was Bernhard Riemann born?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1826.
(d) 1629.

10. In Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero,” the author states that the Hubble telescope saw that most galaxies were flying away from one another by using red-shifting and blue-shifting effects, the cosmological equivalent of what?
(a) The Doppler effect.
(b) The radon effect.
(c) The Heisenberg effect.
(d) The differential effect.

11. What term refers to the production of nuclei other than those of the lightest isotope of hydrogen during the early phases of the universe?
(a) String theory.
(b) Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
(c) Quantum gravity.
(d) M-Theory.

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

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

14. 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) The Golden Ratio.
(c) M-Theory.
(d) Differential equations.

15. Newton's notation for differentiation uses what symbol placed over a function name to denote the time derivative of that function?
(a) A line.
(b) An omega.
(c) A dot.
(d) An omicron.

Short Answer 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?

2. According to the author in Chapter 6, “Infinity’s Twin,” geometry shows that mathematically the north and south poles of spheres do what?

3. The operation of finding the area under a curve is now called what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

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

5. What kind of stars did the Hubble space telescope use to measure the size of the universe?

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