6 Written Questions

1. believed that the natural state of objects was to be at rest
2. got killed by Polomium 210
3. discovered electromagnetic induction, which led to the discovery of the generation of electricity. He was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education. He was trained to be a bookbinder. He was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He declined to accept knighthood. He gave Christmas lectures to kids
4. the first to do experimental studies of the laws of motion and was Imprisoned by Pope Urban VIII in 1633 for advocating the Copernican theory, also know as the heliocentric theory, that the earth was a planet revolving around the sun.
5. supported the use of AC power
6. a Danish physicist who used the quantum concept to explain the nature of the atom.

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. discovered Fission
   1. Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner
   2. Thomas Edison
   3. Alexander Litvenko
   4. Edward Teller
2. a professor of anatomy at the Univerrsity of Bologna found that a freshly dissected frog leg hung on a copper hook twitched when touched by an aron scalpel
   1. Nikoli Tesla
   2. Galileo
   3. Luigi Galvani
   4. Enrico Fermi
3. father of the hydrogen bomb
   1. Enrico Fermi
   2. Kepler
   3. Edward Teller
   4. Nikoli Tesla
4. argued that a changing electric field should create a magnetic field.
   1. Edward Teller
   2. James Clark Maxwell
   3. Allesandro Volta
   4. Niels Bohr
5. father of the atomic bomb
   1. Enrico Fermi
   2. Brahe
   3. Einstein
   4. Aristotle
6. Compiled the first detailed observational data on planetary motion (mars), without a telescope.
   1. Newton
   2. Brahe
   3. Galileo
   4. Kepler

6 True/False Question

1. Newton → wrote Principia in 1687. Made the 3 laws of mechanics and law of gravity. He also invented calculus.
   

   True        False

2. Allesandro Volta → discovered the first battery
   

   True        False

3. Galileo → analized brahe’s data and verified the heliocentric theory. These regularities are known as Kelpers Laws of Planetary motion.
   

   True        False

4. Kepler → Compiled the first detailed observational data on planetary motion (mars), without a telescope.
   

   True        False

5. Einstein → shows in 1905 that newtons laws were not valid for objects moving with speeds near the speed of light.
   

   True        False

6. Thomas Edison → shows in 1905 that newtons laws were not valid for objects moving with speeds near the speed of light.
   

   True        False