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Introductory
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Question 1
Which ancient philosopher is widely regarded as the founder of
atomism?
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Atomism in the Ancient World
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Leucippus
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Aristotle
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Democritus
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Plato
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Question 2
The theory of atomism was supported by which group of religious
thinkers in the Middle Ages?
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Antiatomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming
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Scientific Revolution
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Arabs
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Jews
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Christians
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German physicists
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Significant influences on the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century
included all of the following EXCEPT?
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Antiatomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming
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Scientific Revolution
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American academics
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Question 4
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Renaissance experimentalism
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Western classical and medieval roots
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Islamic scholarship
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Which Scientific Revolution thinker did NOT believe in atoms?
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Antiatomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming
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René Descartes
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Isaac Newton
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Robert Boyle
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Daniel Sennert
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Question 5
Which scientist's atomic views were strongly influenced by his
pneumatic experiments with air?
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Antiatomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming
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Scientific Revolution
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Robert Boyle
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René Descartes
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Isaac Newton
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Johannes Kepler
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On what basis did John Dalton organize a table of the elements?
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Antiatomism in the Middle Ages and the Coming
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the weights of atoms
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the behavior of gases
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the behavior of fluids
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the law of gravitation
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Question 7
Which of these statements is true, according to the laws of conservation
and transformation of energy?
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Merging Physics and Chemistry to Understand the
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Atom
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Question 9
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Energy is neither created nor destroyed in
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All atoms contain energy.
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All chemical reactions release energy.
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Energy transformations are kept to a minimum
in atomic changes.
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What were James Clerk Maxwell's main areas of interest?
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Merging Chemistry and Physics to Understand the
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gases and light
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the periodic table and pharmaceuticals
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the organization of technical colleges and
research laboratories
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optics and scientific journals
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Which nation came to prominence in physics research by 1900?
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The Mechanical Worldview Under Siege
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Germany
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France
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Italy
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England
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What did Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen discover in Novrmber, 1895?
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The Electron, X-Rays, and Modern Physics
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x-rays
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the electron
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cathode ray tubes
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flourescence
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Which physicist discovered radioactivity?
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The Electron, X-rays, and Modern Physics
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Henri Becquerel
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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J.J. Thomson
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Marie Curie
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What is a 'quantum'?
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The Quantum and the Einsteinian World
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the smallest unit of energy
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the smallest part of an atom
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the part of an atom that emits radiation
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the weight of an electron
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Question 13
What are the central hypotheses of quantum theory?
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The Quantum and the Einsteinian World
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Energy is emitted and absorbed in quanta, and a Correct
photon is the carrier of a quantum of energy.
Question 14
The atom is constructed on a planetary model,
and a photon is the carrier of a quantum of
energy.
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The atom is constructed on a planetary model,
and radioctivity is produced by the decay of
atoms.
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Energy is emitted and absorbed in quanta, and
radioctivity is produced by the decay of atoms.
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What is quantum mechanics?
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Uncertainty
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The description of atoms based on wave
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Question 15
A theory that explains chemical reactions.
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A description of what happens when atoms
collide.
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What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle?
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Uncertainty
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We cannot simultaneously know both the exact
position, and the velocity of a subatomic
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We can never know exactly how atoms behave.
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The mass of an electron cannot be known with
any certainty.
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All possible theories of the atom can only be
approximately correct.
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