Which of the following is a true statement?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Albert Einstein was born in Switzerland.
All of Albert Einstein’s teachers
considered him to be the bestperforming classroom student that they
had encountered.
Albert Einstein elected to take a job as a
patent examiner in spite of having offers
for faculty positions at universities.
Albert Einstein got married twice – first
to Mileva Maric, and later to his cousin
Elsa Loewenthal.
Albert Einstein was a highly
accomplished teacher and mentor of
undergraduate students, many of whose
students went on to successful research
careers in physics.
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5
Which was NOT among the topics about which Einstein
published during his miraculous year of 1905?
1. Brownian motion
2. The electrodynamics of
moving bodies
3. The equivalence of inertia
and energy
4. the photoelectric effect
5. The redshift of light as it
climbs in a gravitational
field
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5
Einstein was the first to use the concepts of spacetime and
worldlines in connection with his special theory of relativity.
1. True
2. False
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Why do chemical engineers use the rule that the mass of the products
of a chemical reaction must equal the mass of reactants?
1.
2.
3.
Because the equation E=mc2
does not apply to chemical
reactions.
Because the energy releases in
chemical reactions are small
enough that the corresponding
mass decreases are negligibly
small.
It is not true that the chemical
engineers use a “mass
conservation” rule.
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In Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect, a monochromatic
beam of light is supposed to consist of a stream of photons, with the
energy E of each photon equal to Planck’s constant h times ______ of
the light.
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1.
2.
3.
4.
the frequency
the intensity
the wavelength
None of the above
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4
According to Einstein’s
______________ .
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
special
theory
of
the measured speed of light is
the same in every inertial frame
of reference
moving clocks run slow
moving objects are shortened
longitudinally
if two events are simultaneous in
one frame of reference, they are
typically NOT simultaneous as
observed in a frame reference
moving with respect to the first
All of the above are true
relativity,
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Which of the following effects had already been observed before
Einstein developed the general theory of relativity?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
deflection of starlight as it
passes near the Sun
excess precession in the
perihelion of the planet Mercury
the redshift of light as it climbs
in a gravitational field
All of the above had already
been observed
None of the above had been
observed before Einstein
developed general relativity
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There are no devices of practical importance for which the
general theory of relativity plays an important role.
1. True
2. False
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5
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2
In 1935, Einstein and two co-authors published a paper expressing
doubt that ______________ can provide a correct and complete
description of the physical world.
1.
2.
3.
4.
logical thought
mathematics
quantum mechanics
string theory
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