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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to an optical telescope that uses a single or combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image?
(a) An Alhazen’s telescope.
(b) A chromatic telescope.
(c) A reflecting telescope.
(d) A refracting telescope.

2. What term refers to a branch of pure mathematics devoted primarily to the study of the integers?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Classical physics.
(c) Number theory.
(d) Geometry.

3. 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) James Washington.
(b) Peter Mitchell.
(c) Andrew Miller.
(d) Dirk Polder.

4. What term in geometry refers to a straight line that just touches a plane curve at a given point?
(a) A gravitational pull.
(b) A divergent.
(c) A hyperbole.
(d) A tangent.

5. The antiparticle of the electron is called what?
(a) Derivative.
(b) Neutron.
(c) Positron.
(d) Proton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the photoelectric effect, electrons are emitted from solids, liquids or gases when they do what?

2. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” thermodynamics led physicists to believe that light was not a particle but what?

3. The author suggests in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero” that zero might spawn universes through a froth of what?

4. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

5. Where was Carl Gauss from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems were encountered in calculus with zero? How did zero apply to the physical world, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?

2. What is expressed through the Rayleigh-Jeans law? How does this law relate to zero?

3. What does the author say thermodynamics has taught us in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros”?

4. What are differential equations? Who first developed differential equations?

5. Who devised the concept of a limit in calculus? What problems did the limit solve?

6. How is string theory described by the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero”?

7. What was discovered by Albert Einstein’s solution to the photoelectric effect?

8. Who was Carl Gauss? What discovery did he make regarding imaginary numbers?

9. What problem do black holes present in physics, according to the author in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero”?

10. How were Georg Cantor’s mathematical principles applied to his theology? Who disagreed with his vision and why?

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