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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 term refers to numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers, yet not necessarily absolutely infinite?
(a) Transfinite numbers.
(b) Quantitative numbers.
(c) Derivative numbers.
(d) Pythagorean numbers.
2. 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 radon effect.
(b) The Heisenberg effect.
(c) The differential effect.
(d) The Doppler effect.
3. What term in theoretical physics refers to an extension of string theory in which 11 dimensions of spacetime are identified?
(a) Big Bang theory.
(b) Planck theory.
(c) M-theory.
(d) Space theory.
4. 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) M-Theory.
(b) String theory.
(c) Big Bang nucleosynthesis.
(d) Quantum gravity.
5. According to the author in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros,” Max Planck came up with a new equation that solved the ultraviolet catastrophe but implied that energy was released in discrete packets that have come to be called what?
(a) Derivatives.
(b) Strings.
(c) Quanta.
(d) Photons.
Short Answer Questions
1. Carl Gauss referred to mathematics as what?
2. Johannes Kepler used calculus to determine that planets had what, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
3. What refers to an indeterminate polynomial equation that allows the variables to take integer values only?
4. The Rayleigh–Jeans law agrees with experimental results at large wavelengths but strongly disagrees at short wavelengths. What is this inconsistency known as?
5. In physics or chemistry, what term refers to particles that are smaller than an atom?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did l’Hopital address the problem of zero, according to the author in Chapter 5, “Infinite Zeros and Infidel Mathematicians”?
2. Who was Carl Gauss? What discovery did he make regarding imaginary numbers?
3. What does the author say thermodynamics has taught us in Chapter 7, “Absolute Zeros”?
4. How are electrons described in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero”?
5. What was discovered by Albert Einstein’s solution to the photoelectric effect?
6. How many dimensions are required for string theory to work? How are these dimensions described in Chapter 8, “Zero Hour at Ground Zero”?
7. What problem does zero present when calculating tangent lines? What is a tangent?
8. How old is the universe estimated to be by astronomers today? How did they calculate this age?
9. Who devised the concept of a limit in calculus? What problems did the limit solve?
10. What are differential equations? Who first developed differential equations?
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