Quizbank/How things work/Sample final

1. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 4 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 6.0 meters

___ b) 5.0 meters

___ c) 4.0 meters

___ d) 3.0 meters

___ e) 7.0 meters

2. Excepting cases where where quantum jumps in energy are induced in another object (i.e., using only the uncertainty principle), which would NOT put a classical particle into the quantum regime?

___ a) low mass

___ b) low speed

___ c) confinement to a small space

___ d) high speed

3. How is the validity of a computer model typically tested?

___ a) by verifying its ability to calculate past climate conditions.

___ b) by making predictions about future years and seeing if they come true.

___ c) all of these are true

___ d) by verifying its ability to calculate current climate conditions.

4. The Sothic calendar of 365 days did not include an extra day every four years. As a consequence, it advanced by _____ days in 12 years

___ a) 2

___ b) 1

___ c) 4

___ d) 3

5. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

___ a) neither complete nor self-consistent

___ b) complete but not self-consistent

___ c) complete and self-consistent

___ d) self-consistent but not complete

6. A car is traveling west and slowing down. The acceleration is

___ a) to the west

___ b) to the east

___ c) zero

7. Which statement is FALSE about the lede's map of the temperature anomaly (2000-2009)?

___ a) Central Europe has warmed more than the continental United States

___ b) The United States has warmed more than Australia

___ c) all portions of Antarctica have warmed

___ d) Northern Asia has warmed more than southern Asia

8. Computer modeling has conclusively established that anthropogenic warming has occurred since 1910.

___ a) true

___ b) false

9.

A ____________ is a gear which has teeth that projects at right angles to the face of the wheel.

___ a) spiral bevel gear

___ b) crown gear

___ c) epicycle gear

10. When a table cloth is quickly pulled out from under dishes, they hardly move. This is because

___ a) objects don't begin to accelerate until after the force has been applied

___ b) the cloth is accelerating for such a brief time that there is little motion

___ c) the cloth is more slippery when it is pulled quickly

11. When light passes from air to glass

___ a) the frequency increases

___ b) the frequency decreases

___ c) it bends away from the normal

___ d) it bends towards the normal

___ e) it does not bend

12. The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect

___ a) domestic cotton production

___ b) small manufacturers

___ c) the woollen industry

___ d) large manufacturers

13. Four minutes times 365 is approximately one

___ a) day

___ b) year

___ c) month

___ d) week

14. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was later adopted to the Jacquard loom.

___ a) true

___ b) false

15. A car is headed due north and decreasing its speed. It is also turning left because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The acceleration vector points

___ a) west

___ b) northwest

___ c) south

___ d) southwest

___ e) southeast

16. A 2008 report from Oak Ridge National Laboratory concluded that the dose to the public from radiation from coal plants is ___________ the radiation nuclear plants (excluding the possibility of accidental discharges of radioactive material

___ a) 100 times more than

___ b) 10 times more than

___ c) about the same as

___ d) 10 times less than

___ e) 100 times less than

17. Mr. Smith is driving at a speed of 5 m/s, when he slows down to a speed of 4 m/s, when he hits a wall at this speed, after travelling for 2 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 10.0 meters

___ b) 9.0 meters

___ c) 8.0 meters

___ d) 11.0 meters

___ e) 12.0 meters

18. During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by

___ a) replacing glass containers with lead containers

___ b) replacing iron containers with glass containers

___ c) replacing glass containers with iron containers

___ d) replacing lead containers with glass containers

19. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

___ a) 50%

___ b) 10%

___ c) 0%

___ d) 30%

20. If the electron behaved as a classical (non-quantum) particle and the electron was somehow connected to a spring inside the metal, then one would expect that photoelectrons would be emitted _______

___ a) at a specific frequency

___ b) above a threshold intensity

___ c) above a thresholdfrequency

___ d) above a threshold wavelength

21. Depleting the ozone layer cools the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV energy from the sun that heats the stratosphere.

___ a) true

___ b) false

22. The Manhattan project made

___ a) plutonium and enriched uranium

___ b) plutonium and enriched hesparium

___ c) uranium and enriched plutonium

23. These two pulses will collide and produce

___ a) positive diffraction

___ b) negative interference

___ c) positive interference

___ d) negative diffraction

24. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.

___ a) true

___ b) false

25. It has been estimated that farmland lost due to Fukushima accident will be again useful for farming in 40-60 years

___ a) true

___ b) false

26. Sothic calendar was an Egyptian calendar with twelve months of 30 days plus five intercalary days to keep the year synchronous with the Lunar phases.}

___ a) true

___ b) false

27. Saros (or Sar) was the Babylonian word for the Saros cycle.

___ a) true

___ b) false

28. If the machine is at B: 000110 , what's next?

___ a) B: 001110

___ b) A: 001110

___ c) B: 000111

___ d) A: 001110

29. A system that uses tables of numbers is called an analog computer

___ a) true

___ b) false

30. Compared with the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the second (latter) half was

___ a) about the same

___ b) twice as much

___ c) half as much

31. Fermi used _______ to create what he thought was _______

___ a) "moonshine";   fast neutrons

___ b) slow neutrons;   a new element heavier than uranium (called a transuranic element)

___ c) transuranic (heavy) elements;   a new source of slow neutrons

___ d) slow neutrons;   "moonshine"

32. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

___ a) at infinity

___ b) very far away

___ c) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

___ d) Two (of the other answers) are true

___ e) One focal length in front of the eye

33. What remains nearly the same after a single saros cycle has occured?

___ a) phase of moon and earth-moon distance

___ b) phase of moon and position of sun relative to background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

___ c) phase of moon and position of moon relative to the background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

34. The Turing machine was a(n) ______ device

___ a) conceptual

___ b) prototype

___ c) analog

___ d) digital

___ e) electromechanical

35. Two signals (dashed) add to a solid

___ a) dissonance

___ b) fifth

___ c) octave

36. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as measurements made using measurements from space.

___ a) true

___ b) false

37. Uranium is approximately ______________ than silver in the Earth's crust.

___ a) 40 times less common

___ b) 40 times more common

___ c) 4 times less common

___ d) 4 times more common

38. Ernest Rutherford's "moonshine" was

___ a) what he called alpha particles

___ b) what he called the idea of relying on fossil fuels

___ c) what he called the idea of harnessing nuclear power

___ d) what called neutrons

39. The industrial revolution began in

___ a) simultaneously in a variety of European nations

___ b) simultaneously in Europe and the United States

___ c) Germany

___ d) United States

___ e) Great Britain

40. Anthropogenic means something that

___ a) humans cannot repair

___ b) human caused

___ c) will hurt humans

___ d) humans can repair

1. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 4 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

+ a) 6.0 meters

- b) 5.0 meters

- c) 4.0 meters

- d) 3.0 meters

- e) 7.0 meters

2. Excepting cases where where quantum jumps in energy are induced in another object (i.e., using only the uncertainty principle), which would NOT put a classical particle into the quantum regime?

- a) low mass

- b) low speed

- c) confinement to a small space

+ d) high speed

3. How is the validity of a computer model typically tested?

- a) by verifying its ability to calculate past climate conditions.

- b) by making predictions about future years and seeing if they come true.

+ c) all of these are true

- d) by verifying its ability to calculate current climate conditions.

4. The Sothic calendar of 365 days did not include an extra day every four years. As a consequence, it advanced by _____ days in 12 years

- a) 2

- b) 1

- c) 4

+ d) 3

5. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

+ a) neither complete nor self-consistent

- b) complete but not self-consistent

- c) complete and self-consistent

- d) self-consistent but not complete

6. A car is traveling west and slowing down. The acceleration is

- a) to the west

+ b) to the east

- c) zero

7. Which statement is FALSE about the lede's map of the temperature anomaly (2000-2009)?

- a) Central Europe has warmed more than the continental United States

- b) The United States has warmed more than Australia

+ c) all portions of Antarctica have warmed

- d) Northern Asia has warmed more than southern Asia

8. Computer modeling has conclusively established that anthropogenic warming has occurred since 1910.

- a) true

+ b) false

9.

A ____________ is a gear which has teeth that projects at right angles to the face of the wheel.

- a) spiral bevel gear

+ b) crown gear

- c) epicycle gear

10. When a table cloth is quickly pulled out from under dishes, they hardly move. This is because

- a) objects don't begin to accelerate until after the force has been applied

+ b) the cloth is accelerating for such a brief time that there is little motion

- c) the cloth is more slippery when it is pulled quickly

11. When light passes from air to glass

- a) the frequency increases

- b) the frequency decreases

- c) it bends away from the normal

+ d) it bends towards the normal

- e) it does not bend

12. The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect

- a) domestic cotton production

- b) small manufacturers

+ c) the woollen industry

- d) large manufacturers

13. Four minutes times 365 is approximately one

+ a) day

- b) year

- c) month

- d) week

14. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was later adopted to the Jacquard loom.

- a) true

+ b) false

15. A car is headed due north and decreasing its speed. It is also turning left because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The acceleration vector points

- a) west

- b) northwest

- c) south

+ d) southwest

- e) southeast

16. A 2008 report from Oak Ridge National Laboratory concluded that the dose to the public from radiation from coal plants is ___________ the radiation nuclear plants (excluding the possibility of accidental discharges of radioactive material

+ a) 100 times more than

- b) 10 times more than

- c) about the same as

- d) 10 times less than

- e) 100 times less than

17. Mr. Smith is driving at a speed of 5 m/s, when he slows down to a speed of 4 m/s, when he hits a wall at this speed, after travelling for 2 seconds. How far did he travel?

- a) 10.0 meters

+ b) 9.0 meters

- c) 8.0 meters

- d) 11.0 meters

- e) 12.0 meters

18. During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by

+ a) replacing glass containers with lead containers

- b) replacing iron containers with glass containers

- c) replacing glass containers with iron containers

- d) replacing lead containers with glass containers

19. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

- a) 50%

- b) 10%

+ c) 0%

- d) 30%

20. If the electron behaved as a classical (non-quantum) particle and the electron was somehow connected to a spring inside the metal, then one would expect that photoelectrons would be emitted _______

+ a) at a specific frequency

- b) above a threshold intensity

- c) above a thresholdfrequency

- d) above a threshold wavelength

21. Depleting the ozone layer cools the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV energy from the sun that heats the stratosphere.

+ a) true

- b) false

22. The Manhattan project made

+ a) plutonium and enriched uranium

- b) plutonium and enriched hesparium

- c) uranium and enriched plutonium

23. These two pulses will collide and produce

- a) positive diffraction

+ b) negative interference

- c) positive interference

- d) negative diffraction

24. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.

- a) true

+ b) false

25. It has been estimated that farmland lost due to Fukushima accident will be again useful for farming in 40-60 years

- a) true

+ b) false

26. Sothic calendar was an Egyptian calendar with twelve months of 30 days plus five intercalary days to keep the year synchronous with the Lunar phases.}

- a) true

+ b) false

27. Saros (or Sar) was the Babylonian word for the Saros cycle.

- a) true

+ b) false

28. If the machine is at B: 000110 , what's next?

- a) B: 001110

- b) A: 001110

- c) B: 000111

+ d) A: 001110

29. A system that uses tables of numbers is called an analog computer

- a) true

+ b) false

30. Compared with the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the second (latter) half was

- a) about the same

+ b) twice as much

- c) half as much

31. Fermi used _______ to create what he thought was _______

- a) "moonshine";   fast neutrons

+ b) slow neutrons;   a new element heavier than uranium (called a transuranic element)

- c) transuranic (heavy) elements;   a new source of slow neutrons

- d) slow neutrons;   "moonshine"

32. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

- a) at infinity

- b) very far away

- c) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

+ d) Two (of the other answers) are true

- e) One focal length in front of the eye

33. What remains nearly the same after a single saros cycle has occured?

+ a) phase of moon and earth-moon distance

- b) phase of moon and position of sun relative to background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

- c) phase of moon and position of moon relative to the background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

34. The Turing machine was a(n) ______ device

+ a) conceptual

- b) prototype

- c) analog

- d) digital

- e) electromechanical

35. Two signals (dashed) add to a solid

+ a) dissonance

- b) fifth

- c) octave

36. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as measurements made using measurements from space.

- a) true

+ b) false

37. Uranium is approximately ______________ than silver in the Earth's crust.

- a) 40 times less common

+ b) 40 times more common

- c) 4 times less common

- d) 4 times more common

38. Ernest Rutherford's "moonshine" was

- a) what he called alpha particles

- b) what he called the idea of relying on fossil fuels

+ c) what he called the idea of harnessing nuclear power

- d) what called neutrons

39. The industrial revolution began in

- a) simultaneously in a variety of European nations

- b) simultaneously in Europe and the United States

- c) Germany

- d) United States

+ e) Great Britain

40. Anthropogenic means something that

- a) humans cannot repair

+ b) human caused

- c) will hurt humans

- d) humans can repair

1. The industrial revolution began in

___ a) Great Britain

___ b) Germany

___ c) simultaneously in a variety of European nations

___ d) simultaneously in Europe and the United States

___ e) United States

2. Ernest Rutherford's "moonshine" was

___ a) what he called the idea of harnessing nuclear power

___ b) what called neutrons

___ c) what he called the idea of relying on fossil fuels

___ d) what he called alpha particles

3. A system that uses tables of numbers is called an analog computer

___ a) true

___ b) false

4. Which statement is FALSE about the lede's map of the temperature anomaly (2000-2009)?

___ a) all portions of Antarctica have warmed

___ b) The United States has warmed more than Australia

___ c) Northern Asia has warmed more than southern Asia

___ d) Central Europe has warmed more than the continental United States

5. Depleting the ozone layer cools the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV energy from the sun that heats the stratosphere.

___ a) true

___ b) false

6. If the machine is at B: 000110 , what's next?

___ a) A: 001110

___ b) A: 001110

___ c) B: 001110

___ d) B: 000111

7. The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect

___ a) domestic cotton production

___ b) large manufacturers

___ c) small manufacturers

___ d) the woollen industry

8. Sothic calendar was an Egyptian calendar with twelve months of 30 days plus five intercalary days to keep the year synchronous with the Lunar phases.}

___ a) true

___ b) false

9. If the electron behaved as a classical (non-quantum) particle and the electron was somehow connected to a spring inside the metal, then one would expect that photoelectrons would be emitted _______

___ a) above a threshold wavelength

___ b) above a threshold intensity

___ c) above a thresholdfrequency

___ d) at a specific frequency

10. A car is headed due north and decreasing its speed. It is also turning left because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The acceleration vector points

___ a) southwest

___ b) west

___ c) southeast

___ d) south

___ e) northwest

11. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

___ a) 50%

___ b) 10%

___ c) 30%

___ d) 0%

12. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

___ a) neither complete nor self-consistent

___ b) complete and self-consistent

___ c) complete but not self-consistent

___ d) self-consistent but not complete

13. The Turing machine was a(n) ______ device

___ a) prototype

___ b) digital

___ c) electromechanical

___ d) conceptual

___ e) analog

14. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as measurements made using measurements from space.

___ a) true

___ b) false

15. The Sothic calendar of 365 days did not include an extra day every four years. As a consequence, it advanced by _____ days in 12 years

___ a) 1

___ b) 3

___ c) 2

___ d) 4

16. A 2008 report from Oak Ridge National Laboratory concluded that the dose to the public from radiation from coal plants is ___________ the radiation nuclear plants (excluding the possibility of accidental discharges of radioactive material

___ a) 100 times less than

___ b) 10 times more than

___ c) 100 times more than

___ d) about the same as

___ e) 10 times less than

17. Two signals (dashed) add to a solid

___ a) fifth

___ b) octave

___ c) dissonance

18. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was later adopted to the Jacquard loom.

___ a) true

___ b) false

19. Computer modeling has conclusively established that anthropogenic warming has occurred since 1910.

___ a) true

___ b) false

20. Excepting cases where where quantum jumps in energy are induced in another object (i.e., using only the uncertainty principle), which would NOT put a classical particle into the quantum regime?

___ a) low speed

___ b) high speed

___ c) low mass

___ d) confinement to a small space

21.

A ____________ is a gear which has teeth that projects at right angles to the face of the wheel.

___ a) spiral bevel gear

___ b) epicycle gear

___ c) crown gear

22. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

___ a) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

___ b) Two (of the other answers) are true

___ c) at infinity

___ d) One focal length in front of the eye

___ e) very far away

23. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.

___ a) true

___ b) false

24. Four minutes times 365 is approximately one

___ a) month

___ b) week

___ c) day

___ d) year

25. During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by

___ a) replacing glass containers with iron containers

___ b) replacing glass containers with lead containers

___ c) replacing iron containers with glass containers

___ d) replacing lead containers with glass containers

26. Uranium is approximately ______________ than silver in the Earth's crust.

___ a) 40 times less common

___ b) 40 times more common

___ c) 4 times less common

___ d) 4 times more common

27. When light passes from air to glass

___ a) the frequency decreases

___ b) the frequency increases

___ c) it bends towards the normal

___ d) it bends away from the normal

___ e) it does not bend

28. Saros (or Sar) was the Babylonian word for the Saros cycle.

___ a) true

___ b) false

29. These two pulses will collide and produce

___ a) negative diffraction

___ b) negative interference

___ c) positive diffraction

___ d) positive interference

30. Mr. Smith is driving at a speed of 5 m/s, when he slows down to a speed of 4 m/s, when he hits a wall at this speed, after travelling for 2 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 8.0 meters

___ b) 10.0 meters

___ c) 11.0 meters

___ d) 12.0 meters

___ e) 9.0 meters

31. Fermi used _______ to create what he thought was _______

___ a) transuranic (heavy) elements;   a new source of slow neutrons

___ b) "moonshine";   fast neutrons

___ c) slow neutrons;   "moonshine"

___ d) slow neutrons;   a new element heavier than uranium (called a transuranic element)

32. The Manhattan project made

___ a) uranium and enriched plutonium

___ b) plutonium and enriched hesparium

___ c) plutonium and enriched uranium

33. When a table cloth is quickly pulled out from under dishes, they hardly move. This is because

___ a) the cloth is accelerating for such a brief time that there is little motion

___ b) objects don't begin to accelerate until after the force has been applied

___ c) the cloth is more slippery when it is pulled quickly

34. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 4 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 7.0 meters

___ b) 3.0 meters

___ c) 5.0 meters

___ d) 6.0 meters

___ e) 4.0 meters

35. It has been estimated that farmland lost due to Fukushima accident will be again useful for farming in 40-60 years

___ a) true

___ b) false

36. How is the validity of a computer model typically tested?

___ a) by verifying its ability to calculate past climate conditions.

___ b) by making predictions about future years and seeing if they come true.

___ c) all of these are true

___ d) by verifying its ability to calculate current climate conditions.

37. Anthropogenic means something that

___ a) human caused

___ b) will hurt humans

___ c) humans can repair

___ d) humans cannot repair

38. What remains nearly the same after a single saros cycle has occured?

___ a) phase of moon and earth-moon distance

___ b) phase of moon and position of moon relative to the background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

___ c) phase of moon and position of sun relative to background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

39. Compared with the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the second (latter) half was

___ a) about the same

___ b) half as much

___ c) twice as much

40. A car is traveling west and slowing down. The acceleration is

___ a) to the west

___ b) to the east

___ c) zero

1. The industrial revolution began in

+ a) Great Britain

- b) Germany

- c) simultaneously in a variety of European nations

- d) simultaneously in Europe and the United States

- e) United States

2. Ernest Rutherford's "moonshine" was

+ a) what he called the idea of harnessing nuclear power

- b) what called neutrons

- c) what he called the idea of relying on fossil fuels

- d) what he called alpha particles

3. A system that uses tables of numbers is called an analog computer

- a) true

+ b) false

4. Which statement is FALSE about the lede's map of the temperature anomaly (2000-2009)?

+ a) all portions of Antarctica have warmed

- b) The United States has warmed more than Australia

- c) Northern Asia has warmed more than southern Asia

- d) Central Europe has warmed more than the continental United States

5. Depleting the ozone layer cools the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV energy from the sun that heats the stratosphere.

+ a) true

- b) false

6. If the machine is at B: 000110 , what's next?

- a) A: 001110

+ b) A: 001110

- c) B: 001110

- d) B: 000111

7. The Calico Acts were initially designed to protect

- a) domestic cotton production

- b) large manufacturers

- c) small manufacturers

+ d) the woollen industry

8. Sothic calendar was an Egyptian calendar with twelve months of 30 days plus five intercalary days to keep the year synchronous with the Lunar phases.}

- a) true

+ b) false

9. If the electron behaved as a classical (non-quantum) particle and the electron was somehow connected to a spring inside the metal, then one would expect that photoelectrons would be emitted _______

- a) above a threshold wavelength

- b) above a threshold intensity

- c) above a thresholdfrequency

+ d) at a specific frequency

10. A car is headed due north and decreasing its speed. It is also turning left because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The acceleration vector points

+ a) southwest

- b) west

- c) southeast

- d) south

- e) northwest

11. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

- a) 50%

- b) 10%

- c) 30%

+ d) 0%

12. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

+ a) neither complete nor self-consistent

- b) complete and self-consistent

- c) complete but not self-consistent

- d) self-consistent but not complete

13. The Turing machine was a(n) ______ device

- a) prototype

- b) digital

- c) electromechanical

+ d) conceptual

- e) analog

14. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as measurements made using measurements from space.

- a) true

+ b) false

15. The Sothic calendar of 365 days did not include an extra day every four years. As a consequence, it advanced by _____ days in 12 years

- a) 1

+ b) 3

- c) 2

- d) 4

16. A 2008 report from Oak Ridge National Laboratory concluded that the dose to the public from radiation from coal plants is ___________ the radiation nuclear plants (excluding the possibility of accidental discharges of radioactive material

- a) 100 times less than

- b) 10 times more than

+ c) 100 times more than

- d) about the same as

- e) 10 times less than

17. Two signals (dashed) add to a solid

- a) fifth

- b) octave

+ c) dissonance

18. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was later adopted to the Jacquard loom.

- a) true

+ b) false

19. Computer modeling has conclusively established that anthropogenic warming has occurred since 1910.

- a) true

+ b) false

20. Excepting cases where where quantum jumps in energy are induced in another object (i.e., using only the uncertainty principle), which would NOT put a classical particle into the quantum regime?

- a) low speed

+ b) high speed

- c) low mass

- d) confinement to a small space

21.

A ____________ is a gear which has teeth that projects at right angles to the face of the wheel.

- a) spiral bevel gear

- b) epicycle gear

+ c) crown gear

22. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

- a) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

+ b) Two (of the other answers) are true

- c) at infinity

- d) One focal length in front of the eye

- e) very far away

23. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere.

- a) true

+ b) false

24. Four minutes times 365 is approximately one

- a) month

- b) week

+ c) day

- d) year

25. During the Industrial Revolution, the cost of producing sulfuric acid greatly improved by

- a) replacing glass containers with iron containers

+ b) replacing glass containers with lead containers

- c) replacing iron containers with glass containers

- d) replacing lead containers with glass containers

26. Uranium is approximately ______________ than silver in the Earth's crust.

- a) 40 times less common

+ b) 40 times more common

- c) 4 times less common

- d) 4 times more common

27. When light passes from air to glass

- a) the frequency decreases

- b) the frequency increases

+ c) it bends towards the normal

- d) it bends away from the normal

- e) it does not bend

28. Saros (or Sar) was the Babylonian word for the Saros cycle.

- a) true

+ b) false

29. These two pulses will collide and produce

- a) negative diffraction

+ b) negative interference

- c) positive diffraction

- d) positive interference

30. Mr. Smith is driving at a speed of 5 m/s, when he slows down to a speed of 4 m/s, when he hits a wall at this speed, after travelling for 2 seconds. How far did he travel?

- a) 8.0 meters

- b) 10.0 meters

- c) 11.0 meters

- d) 12.0 meters

+ e) 9.0 meters

31. Fermi used _______ to create what he thought was _______

- a) transuranic (heavy) elements;   a new source of slow neutrons

- b) "moonshine";   fast neutrons

- c) slow neutrons;   "moonshine"

+ d) slow neutrons;   a new element heavier than uranium (called a transuranic element)

32. The Manhattan project made

- a) uranium and enriched plutonium

- b) plutonium and enriched hesparium

+ c) plutonium and enriched uranium

33. When a table cloth is quickly pulled out from under dishes, they hardly move. This is because

+ a) the cloth is accelerating for such a brief time that there is little motion

- b) objects don't begin to accelerate until after the force has been applied

- c) the cloth is more slippery when it is pulled quickly

34. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 4 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

- a) 7.0 meters

- b) 3.0 meters

- c) 5.0 meters

+ d) 6.0 meters

- e) 4.0 meters

35. It has been estimated that farmland lost due to Fukushima accident will be again useful for farming in 40-60 years

- a) true

+ b) false

36. How is the validity of a computer model typically tested?

- a) by verifying its ability to calculate past climate conditions.

- b) by making predictions about future years and seeing if they come true.

+ c) all of these are true

- d) by verifying its ability to calculate current climate conditions.

37. Anthropogenic means something that

+ a) human caused

- b) will hurt humans

- c) humans can repair

- d) humans cannot repair

38. What remains nearly the same after a single saros cycle has occured?

+ a) phase of moon and earth-moon distance

- b) phase of moon and position of moon relative to the background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

- c) phase of moon and position of sun relative to background stars (i.e. zodiacal location)

39. Compared with the first half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the second (latter) half was

- a) about the same

- b) half as much

+ c) twice as much

40. A car is traveling west and slowing down. The acceleration is

- a) to the west

+ b) to the east

- c) zero

1. The 2007 IPCC report stated that most global warming was likely being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Among the science academies of the major industrialized nations, this finding was recognized by

___ a) all but the US academy of science

___ b) 90% of the academies of science

___ c) all of the academies of science

___ d) 60% of the academies of science

2. The Industrial Revolution lasted just under _____ years

___ a) 300

___ b) 400

___ c) 100

___ d) 500

___ e) 200

3. As the Sun, Moon, and planets seem to move around the Earth, they remain close to a circle, called the ecliptic, that can be drawn on paper or imagined in the sky. The Babylonians divided this circle into 12 unequal sections of approximately 30 degrees each, and labeled the sections after the zodiacal constellations.

___ a) true

___ b) false

4. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 2 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 6.0 meters

___ b) 7.0 meters

___ c) 5.0 meters

___ d) 3.0 meters

___ e) 4.0 meters

5. High-level radioactive waste management is a daunting problem because

___ a) the isotopes are long-lived

___ b) the isotopes are short-lived

___ c) they cannot be stored underground

6. Analysis of the uncertainties associated with feedback suggests that the "worst-case" scenario is more difficult to model.

___ a) true

___ b) false

7. What happens to the wavelength on a wave on a stretched string if the wave passes from lightweight (low density) region of the rope to a heavy (high density) rope?

___ a) the wavelength gets longer

___ b) the wavelength gets shorter

___ c) the wavelength stays the same

8. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico

___ a) was originally a research and development facility but is now under private ownership

___ b) can no longer nuclear waste from production reactors because it is full

___ c) is currently taking nuclear waste from production reactors

9. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as the Antikythera mechanism?

___ a)1500 years

___ b)300 years

___ c)15,000 years

___ d)30 years

___ e)3000 years

10. The first nuclear power plant to contribute to the grid was situated in

___ a) Virginia

___ b) Great Britain

___ c) Oak Ridge

___ d) Russia

11. What fraction of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power in 2012?

___ a) 63%

___ b) 3%

___ c) 13%

___ d) 33%

12. According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to

___ a) drill coal mines

___ b) bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines.

___ c) plane rails for railroads

___ d) shape plates for ship hulls

13. Since 1971, 90% of earth's increased energy caused by global warming has been stored in the _____________, mostly _____________

___ a) sea; in the top kilometer

___ b) land; near the equators

___ c) sea; in the bottom kilometer

___ d) land; near the poles

___ e) air; in the water vapor

14. If the machine is at A: 001110, what's next?

___ a) H: 011110

___ b) B: 011110

___ c) H: 011110

___ d) A: 011110

15. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

___ a) 0%

___ b) 50%

___ c) 30%

___ d) 10%

16. In the photoelectric effect, how was the maximum kinetic energy measured?

___ a) by measuring the wavelength of the light

___ b) by measuring the voltage required to prevent the electrons from passing between the two electrodes.

___ c) by measuring the distance between the electrodes

17. The law of reflection applies to

___ a) both flat and curved surfaces

___ b) only light in a vacuum

___ c) flat surfaces

___ d) curved surfaces

___ e) telescopes but not microscopes

18. The reprocessing of spent Uranium worsens the problem of long term waste storage

___ a) true

___ b) false

19. The Stefan-Boltzmann law plays a central role in establishing a planets temperature as the sun heats the planet until the thermal (infra-red) radiation away the planet rises to match the solar radiation onto the planet

___ a) true

___ b) false

20. Mr. Smith starts at rest and accelerates to a speed of 2 m/s, in 6 seconds. He then travels at this speed for an additional 3 seconds. Then he decelerates uniformly, taking 4 seconds to come to rest. How far did he travel?

___ a) 18.0 meters

___ b) 20.0 meters

___ c) 19.0 meters

___ d) 17.0 meters

___ e) 16.0 meters

21. A car is traveling in a perfect circle at constant speed. If the car is headed north while turning east, the acceleration is

___ a) zero

___ b) south

___ c) west

___ d) east

___ e) north

22. A car is traveling east and slowing down. The acceleration is

___ a) zero

___ b) to the east

___ c) to the west

23. If you start moving towards a source of sound, the pitch becomes

___ a) lower

___ b) higher

___ c) unchanged

24. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

___ a) complete but not self-consistent

___ b) neither complete nor self-consistent

___ c) self-consistent but not complete

___ d) complete and self-consistent

25. Your best friend's pet lizard is thirsty every 2 days, hungry every 3 days, and frisky every 5 days. If she is thirsty, hungry, and frisky today, whe will be thirsty, hungry, and frisky _____ days later

___ a) 10

___ b) 30

___ c) 15

___ d) 40

26. A car is headed due north and increasing its speed. It is also turning right because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The velocity vector points

___ a) south

___ b) northeast

___ c) southwest

___ d) northwest

___ e) north

27. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

___ a) One focal length in front of the eye

___ b) at infinity

___ c) Two (of the other answers) are true

___ d) very far away

___ e) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

28. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed at the earth's surface.

___ a) true

___ b) false

29. Which of the following was NOT used as evidence in an effort to guess where the Antikythera device originated?

___ a) Some of the astronomical events associated with the device could have only have been seen from Corinth, a region associated with Archimedes.

___ b) Vases found at the site suggest an origin near the trading port of Rhodes, where Hipparchus was believed to have worked.

___ c) Coins at the site seemed to originate from Pergamon, where an important library was situated.

___ d) The Library of Alexandria, where Ptolemy would later work, would have been a likely destination or origin for the ship.

30. What was Plank's understanding of the significance of his work on blackbody radiation?

___ a) he knew it would someday win him a Nobel prize

___ b) the thought it was some sort of mathematical trick

___ c) he eventually convinced his dissertation committee that the theory was correct

___ d) he was afraid to publish it for fear of losing his reputation

31. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as indirect inferences gathered from ice cores, tree rings, and so forth

___ a) true

___ b)false

32. Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______

___ a) Weavopolis, Weaving factories

___ b) Coalopolis, coal mines

___ c) Cottonopolis, textile factories

___ d) Cokopolis, coke processing plants

33. Compared with the second half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the first half was

___ a) about the same

___ b) twice as much

___ c) half as much

34. One minute of arc describes and angle 60 times smaller than one degree, which nearly equals the observed angular motion of a star in one minute.

___ a) true

___ b) false

35. The Colossus, used to defeat the German Enigma machine during World War II in 1944, was

___ a) Turing-complete

___ b) mechanical

___ c) electromechanical

___ d) electric digital programmable

36. Analog computers were phased out by the dawn of the twentieth century (circa 1900)

___ a) true

___ b) false

37. The distinction between the urban heat island effect and land use changes is that the latter involves the earth's average temperature while the former involves only the temperature near weather stations where the measurements are made

___ a) true

___ b) false

38. In terms of lives lost per unit of energy generated, evidence suggests that nuclear power has caused ______ fatalities per unit of energy generated than the other major sources of energy.

___ a) comparable

___ b) less

___ c) more

39. Suppose that you see a full moon, but no eclipse. You can be certain that a full moon will also occur exactly one Saros later.

___ a) true

___ b) false

40. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was preceded by such use on the Jacquard loom.

___ a) true

___ b) false

1. The 2007 IPCC report stated that most global warming was likely being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Among the science academies of the major industrialized nations, this finding was recognized by

- a) all but the US academy of science

- b) 90% of the academies of science

+ c) all of the academies of science

- d) 60% of the academies of science

2. The Industrial Revolution lasted just under _____ years

- a) 300

- b) 400

+ c) 100

- d) 500

- e) 200

3. As the Sun, Moon, and planets seem to move around the Earth, they remain close to a circle, called the ecliptic, that can be drawn on paper or imagined in the sky. The Babylonians divided this circle into 12 unequal sections of approximately 30 degrees each, and labeled the sections after the zodiacal constellations.

- a) true

+ b) false

4. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 2 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

- a) 6.0 meters

- b) 7.0 meters

- c) 5.0 meters

+ d) 3.0 meters

- e) 4.0 meters

5. High-level radioactive waste management is a daunting problem because

+ a) the isotopes are long-lived

- b) the isotopes are short-lived

- c) they cannot be stored underground

6. Analysis of the uncertainties associated with feedback suggests that the "worst-case" scenario is more difficult to model.

+ a) true

- b) false

7. What happens to the wavelength on a wave on a stretched string if the wave passes from lightweight (low density) region of the rope to a heavy (high density) rope?

+ a) the wavelength gets longer

- b) the wavelength gets shorter

- c) the wavelength stays the same

8. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico

- a) was originally a research and development facility but is now under private ownership

- b) can no longer nuclear waste from production reactors because it is full

+ c) is currently taking nuclear waste from production reactors

9. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as the Antikythera mechanism?

+ a)1500 years

- b)300 years

- c)15,000 years

- d)30 years

- e)3000 years

10. The first nuclear power plant to contribute to the grid was situated in

- a) Virginia

- b) Great Britain

- c) Oak Ridge

+ d) Russia

11. What fraction of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power in 2012?

- a) 63%

- b) 3%

+ c) 13%

- d) 33%

12. According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to

- a) drill coal mines

+ b) bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines.

- c) plane rails for railroads

- d) shape plates for ship hulls

13. Since 1971, 90% of earth's increased energy caused by global warming has been stored in the _____________, mostly _____________

+ a) sea; in the top kilometer

- b) land; near the equators

- c) sea; in the bottom kilometer

- d) land; near the poles

- e) air; in the water vapor

14. If the machine is at A: 001110, what's next?

- a) H: 011110

+ b) B: 011110

- c) H: 011110

- d) A: 011110

15. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

+ a) 0%

- b) 50%

- c) 30%

- d) 10%

16. In the photoelectric effect, how was the maximum kinetic energy measured?

- a) by measuring the wavelength of the light

+ b) by measuring the voltage required to prevent the electrons from passing between the two electrodes.

- c) by measuring the distance between the electrodes

17. The law of reflection applies to

+ a) both flat and curved surfaces

- b) only light in a vacuum

- c) flat surfaces

- d) curved surfaces

- e) telescopes but not microscopes

18. The reprocessing of spent Uranium worsens the problem of long term waste storage

- a) true

+ b) false

19. The Stefan-Boltzmann law plays a central role in establishing a planets temperature as the sun heats the planet until the thermal (infra-red) radiation away the planet rises to match the solar radiation onto the planet

+ a) true

- b) false

20. Mr. Smith starts at rest and accelerates to a speed of 2 m/s, in 6 seconds. He then travels at this speed for an additional 3 seconds. Then he decelerates uniformly, taking 4 seconds to come to rest. How far did he travel?

- a) 18.0 meters

- b) 20.0 meters

- c) 19.0 meters

- d) 17.0 meters

+ e) 16.0 meters

21. A car is traveling in a perfect circle at constant speed. If the car is headed north while turning east, the acceleration is

- a) zero

- b) south

- c) west

+ d) east

- e) north

22. A car is traveling east and slowing down. The acceleration is

- a) zero

- b) to the east

+ c) to the west

23. If you start moving towards a source of sound, the pitch becomes

- a) lower

+ b) higher

- c) unchanged

24. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

- a) complete but not self-consistent

+ b) neither complete nor self-consistent

- c) self-consistent but not complete

- d) complete and self-consistent

25. Your best friend's pet lizard is thirsty every 2 days, hungry every 3 days, and frisky every 5 days. If she is thirsty, hungry, and frisky today, whe will be thirsty, hungry, and frisky _____ days later

- a) 10

+ b) 30

- c) 15

- d) 40

26. A car is headed due north and increasing its speed. It is also turning right because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The velocity vector points

- a) south

- b) northeast

- c) southwest

- d) northwest

+ e) north

27. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

- a) One focal length in front of the eye

- b) at infinity

+ c) Two (of the other answers) are true

- d) very far away

- e) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

28. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed at the earth's surface.

+ a) true

- b) false

29. Which of the following was NOT used as evidence in an effort to guess where the Antikythera device originated?

- a) Some of the astronomical events associated with the device could have only have been seen from Corinth, a region associated with Archimedes.

- b) Vases found at the site suggest an origin near the trading port of Rhodes, where Hipparchus was believed to have worked.

- c) Coins at the site seemed to originate from Pergamon, where an important library was situated.

+ d) The Library of Alexandria, where Ptolemy would later work, would have been a likely destination or origin for the ship.

30. What was Plank's understanding of the significance of his work on blackbody radiation?

- a) he knew it would someday win him a Nobel prize

+ b) the thought it was some sort of mathematical trick

- c) he eventually convinced his dissertation committee that the theory was correct

- d) he was afraid to publish it for fear of losing his reputation

31. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as indirect inferences gathered from ice cores, tree rings, and so forth

+ a) true

- b)false

32. Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______

- a) Weavopolis, Weaving factories

- b) Coalopolis, coal mines

+ c) Cottonopolis, textile factories

- d) Cokopolis, coke processing plants

33. Compared with the second half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the first half was

- a) about the same

- b) twice as much

+ c) half as much

34. One minute of arc describes and angle 60 times smaller than one degree, which nearly equals the observed angular motion of a star in one minute.

- a) true

+ b) false

35. The Colossus, used to defeat the German Enigma machine during World War II in 1944, was

- a) Turing-complete

- b) mechanical

- c) electromechanical

+ d) electric digital programmable

36. Analog computers were phased out by the dawn of the twentieth century (circa 1900)

- a) true

+ b) false

37. The distinction between the urban heat island effect and land use changes is that the latter involves the earth's average temperature while the former involves only the temperature near weather stations where the measurements are made

+ a) true

- b) false

38. In terms of lives lost per unit of energy generated, evidence suggests that nuclear power has caused ______ fatalities per unit of energy generated than the other major sources of energy.

+ a) comparable

- b) less

- c) more

39. Suppose that you see a full moon, but no eclipse. You can be certain that a full moon will also occur exactly one Saros later.

+ a) true

- b) false

40. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was preceded by such use on the Jacquard loom.

+ a) true

- b) false

1. Analysis of the uncertainties associated with feedback suggests that the "worst-case" scenario is more difficult to model.

___ a) true

___ b) false

2. What fraction of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power in 2012?

___ a) 33%

___ b) 63%

___ c) 13%

___ d) 3%

3. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

___ a) 0%

___ b) 10%

___ c) 50%

___ d) 30%

4. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as indirect inferences gathered from ice cores, tree rings, and so forth

___ a) true

___ b)false

5. Mr. Smith starts at rest and accelerates to a speed of 2 m/s, in 6 seconds. He then travels at this speed for an additional 3 seconds. Then he decelerates uniformly, taking 4 seconds to come to rest. How far did he travel?

___ a) 19.0 meters

___ b) 20.0 meters

___ c) 16.0 meters

___ d) 18.0 meters

___ e) 17.0 meters

6. What happens to the wavelength on a wave on a stretched string if the wave passes from lightweight (low density) region of the rope to a heavy (high density) rope?

___ a) the wavelength stays the same

___ b) the wavelength gets longer

___ c) the wavelength gets shorter

7. A car is traveling in a perfect circle at constant speed. If the car is headed north while turning east, the acceleration is

___ a) zero

___ b) west

___ c) east

___ d) north

___ e) south

8. The distinction between the urban heat island effect and land use changes is that the latter involves the earth's average temperature while the former involves only the temperature near weather stations where the measurements are made

___ a) true

___ b) false

9. Analog computers were phased out by the dawn of the twentieth century (circa 1900)

___ a) true

___ b) false

10. One minute of arc describes and angle 60 times smaller than one degree, which nearly equals the observed angular motion of a star in one minute.

___ a) true

___ b) false

11. A car is traveling east and slowing down. The acceleration is

___ a) to the west

___ b) to the east

___ c) zero

12. The law of reflection applies to

___ a) telescopes but not microscopes

___ b) only light in a vacuum

___ c) flat surfaces

___ d) both flat and curved surfaces

___ e) curved surfaces

13. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was preceded by such use on the Jacquard loom.

___ a) true

___ b) false

14. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico

___ a) is currently taking nuclear waste from production reactors

___ b) can no longer nuclear waste from production reactors because it is full

___ c) was originally a research and development facility but is now under private ownership

15. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

___ a) complete but not self-consistent

___ b) complete and self-consistent

___ c) self-consistent but not complete

___ d) neither complete nor self-consistent

16. The first nuclear power plant to contribute to the grid was situated in

___ a) Oak Ridge

___ b) Great Britain

___ c) Virginia

___ d) Russia

17. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed at the earth's surface.

___ a) true

___ b) false

18. Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______

___ a) Cottonopolis, textile factories

___ b) Weavopolis, Weaving factories

___ c) Coalopolis, coal mines

___ d) Cokopolis, coke processing plants

19. The Stefan-Boltzmann law plays a central role in establishing a planets temperature as the sun heats the planet until the thermal (infra-red) radiation away the planet rises to match the solar radiation onto the planet

___ a) true

___ b) false

20. The reprocessing of spent Uranium worsens the problem of long term waste storage

___ a) true

___ b) false

21. A car is headed due north and increasing its speed. It is also turning right because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The velocity vector points

___ a) north

___ b) south

___ c) southwest

___ d) northeast

___ e) northwest

22. The Industrial Revolution lasted just under _____ years

___ a) 400

___ b) 100

___ c) 500

___ d) 300

___ e) 200

23. If the machine is at A: 001110, what's next?

___ a) B: 011110

___ b) H: 011110

___ c) A: 011110

___ d) H: 011110

24. In the photoelectric effect, how was the maximum kinetic energy measured?

___ a) by measuring the distance between the electrodes

___ b) by measuring the voltage required to prevent the electrons from passing between the two electrodes.

___ c) by measuring the wavelength of the light

25. Since 1971, 90% of earth's increased energy caused by global warming has been stored in the _____________, mostly _____________

___ a) land; near the equators

___ b) sea; in the top kilometer

___ c) air; in the water vapor

___ d) sea; in the bottom kilometer

___ e) land; near the poles

26. The 2007 IPCC report stated that most global warming was likely being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Among the science academies of the major industrialized nations, this finding was recognized by

___ a) 60% of the academies of science

___ b) 90% of the academies of science

___ c) all but the US academy of science

___ d) all of the academies of science

27. Compared with the second half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the first half was

___ a) twice as much

___ b) about the same

___ c) half as much

28. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

___ a) One focal length in front of the eye

___ b) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

___ c) Two (of the other answers) are true

___ d) very far away

___ e) at infinity

29. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as the Antikythera mechanism?

___ a)3000 years

___ b)30 years

___ c)1500 years

___ d)15,000 years

___ e)300 years

30. What was Plank's understanding of the significance of his work on blackbody radiation?

___ a) he eventually convinced his dissertation committee that the theory was correct

___ b) he knew it would someday win him a Nobel prize

___ c) the thought it was some sort of mathematical trick

___ d) he was afraid to publish it for fear of losing his reputation

31. High-level radioactive waste management is a daunting problem because

___ a) they cannot be stored underground

___ b) the isotopes are short-lived

___ c) the isotopes are long-lived

32. According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to

___ a) shape plates for ship hulls

___ b) plane rails for railroads

___ c) bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines.

___ d) drill coal mines

33. Suppose that you see a full moon, but no eclipse. You can be certain that a full moon will also occur exactly one Saros later.

___ a) true

___ b) false

34. If you start moving towards a source of sound, the pitch becomes

___ a) unchanged

___ b) lower

___ c) higher

35. In terms of lives lost per unit of energy generated, evidence suggests that nuclear power has caused ______ fatalities per unit of energy generated than the other major sources of energy.

___ a) less

___ b) more

___ c) comparable

36. As the Sun, Moon, and planets seem to move around the Earth, they remain close to a circle, called the ecliptic, that can be drawn on paper or imagined in the sky. The Babylonians divided this circle into 12 unequal sections of approximately 30 degrees each, and labeled the sections after the zodiacal constellations.

___ a) true

___ b) false

37. Your best friend's pet lizard is thirsty every 2 days, hungry every 3 days, and frisky every 5 days. If she is thirsty, hungry, and frisky today, whe will be thirsty, hungry, and frisky _____ days later

___ a) 10

___ b) 40

___ c) 15

___ d) 30

38. Which of the following was NOT used as evidence in an effort to guess where the Antikythera device originated?

___ a) Coins at the site seemed to originate from Pergamon, where an important library was situated.

___ b) Vases found at the site suggest an origin near the trading port of Rhodes, where Hipparchus was believed to have worked.

___ c) The Library of Alexandria, where Ptolemy would later work, would have been a likely destination or origin for the ship.

___ d) Some of the astronomical events associated with the device could have only have been seen from Corinth, a region associated with Archimedes.

39. The Colossus, used to defeat the German Enigma machine during World War II in 1944, was

___ a) electromechanical

___ b) mechanical

___ c) electric digital programmable

___ d) Turing-complete

40. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 2 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

___ a) 4.0 meters

___ b) 5.0 meters

___ c) 3.0 meters

___ d) 6.0 meters

___ e) 7.0 meters

1. Analysis of the uncertainties associated with feedback suggests that the "worst-case" scenario is more difficult to model.

+ a) true

- b) false

2. What fraction of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power in 2012?

- a) 33%

- b) 63%

+ c) 13%

- d) 3%

3. Approximately what percent of global warming can be attributed to a long-term trend (since 1978) in the sun's energy?

+ a) 0%

- b) 10%

- c) 50%

- d) 30%

4. Proxy temperatures measurements are defined as indirect inferences gathered from ice cores, tree rings, and so forth

+ a) true

- b)false

5. Mr. Smith starts at rest and accelerates to a speed of 2 m/s, in 6 seconds. He then travels at this speed for an additional 3 seconds. Then he decelerates uniformly, taking 4 seconds to come to rest. How far did he travel?

- a) 19.0 meters

- b) 20.0 meters

+ c) 16.0 meters

- d) 18.0 meters

- e) 17.0 meters

6. What happens to the wavelength on a wave on a stretched string if the wave passes from lightweight (low density) region of the rope to a heavy (high density) rope?

- a) the wavelength stays the same

+ b) the wavelength gets longer

- c) the wavelength gets shorter

7. A car is traveling in a perfect circle at constant speed. If the car is headed north while turning east, the acceleration is

- a) zero

- b) west

+ c) east

- d) north

- e) south

8. The distinction between the urban heat island effect and land use changes is that the latter involves the earth's average temperature while the former involves only the temperature near weather stations where the measurements are made

+ a) true

- b) false

9. Analog computers were phased out by the dawn of the twentieth century (circa 1900)

- a) true

+ b) false

10. One minute of arc describes and angle 60 times smaller than one degree, which nearly equals the observed angular motion of a star in one minute.

- a) true

+ b) false

11. A car is traveling east and slowing down. The acceleration is

+ a) to the west

- b) to the east

- c) zero

12. The law of reflection applies to

- a) telescopes but not microscopes

- b) only light in a vacuum

- c) flat surfaces

+ d) both flat and curved surfaces

- e) curved surfaces

13. Babbage's use of punch cards in the 1930s to solve a problem posed by the Astronomical Society was preceded by such use on the Jacquard loom.

+ a) true

- b) false

14. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico

+ a) is currently taking nuclear waste from production reactors

- b) can no longer nuclear waste from production reactors because it is full

- c) was originally a research and development facility but is now under private ownership

15. How would you describe Old Quantum Theory

- a) complete but not self-consistent

- b) complete and self-consistent

- c) self-consistent but not complete

+ d) neither complete nor self-consistent

16. The first nuclear power plant to contribute to the grid was situated in

- a) Oak Ridge

- b) Great Britain

- c) Virginia

+ d) Russia

17. The "Greenhouse effect schematic" in the section on "Temperature changes..." indicates that most of the energy from the Sun is absorbed at the earth's surface.

+ a) true

- b) false

18. Manchester acquired the nickname __________ during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of ______

+ a) Cottonopolis, textile factories

- b) Weavopolis, Weaving factories

- c) Coalopolis, coal mines

- d) Cokopolis, coke processing plants

19. The Stefan-Boltzmann law plays a central role in establishing a planets temperature as the sun heats the planet until the thermal (infra-red) radiation away the planet rises to match the solar radiation onto the planet

+ a) true

- b) false

20. The reprocessing of spent Uranium worsens the problem of long term waste storage

- a) true

+ b) false

21. A car is headed due north and increasing its speed. It is also turning right because it is also traveling in a perfect circle. The velocity vector points

+ a) north

- b) south

- c) southwest

- d) northeast

- e) northwest

22. The Industrial Revolution lasted just under _____ years

- a) 400

+ b) 100

- c) 500

- d) 300

- e) 200

23. If the machine is at A: 001110, what's next?

+ a) B: 011110

- b) H: 011110

- c) A: 011110

- d) H: 011110

24. In the photoelectric effect, how was the maximum kinetic energy measured?

- a) by measuring the distance between the electrodes

+ b) by measuring the voltage required to prevent the electrons from passing between the two electrodes.

- c) by measuring the wavelength of the light

25. Since 1971, 90% of earth's increased energy caused by global warming has been stored in the _____________, mostly _____________

- a) land; near the equators

+ b) sea; in the top kilometer

- c) air; in the water vapor

- d) sea; in the bottom kilometer

- e) land; near the poles

26. The 2007 IPCC report stated that most global warming was likely being caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases produced by human activities. Among the science academies of the major industrialized nations, this finding was recognized by

- a) 60% of the academies of science

- b) 90% of the academies of science

- c) all but the US academy of science

+ d) all of the academies of science

27. Compared with the second half of the twentieth century, the rate of earth's average temperature rise during the first half was

- a) twice as much

- b) about the same

+ c) half as much

28. If this represents the eye looking at an object, where is this object?

- a) One focal length in front of the eye

- b) directly in front of the eye (almost touching)

+ c) Two (of the other answers) are true

- d) very far away

- e) at infinity

29. How many years did it take before Europe made a device as sophisticated as the Antikythera mechanism?

- a)3000 years

- b)30 years

+ c)1500 years

- d)15,000 years

- e)300 years

30. What was Plank's understanding of the significance of his work on blackbody radiation?

- a) he eventually convinced his dissertation committee that the theory was correct

- b) he knew it would someday win him a Nobel prize

+ c) the thought it was some sort of mathematical trick

- d) he was afraid to publish it for fear of losing his reputation

31. High-level radioactive waste management is a daunting problem because

- a) they cannot be stored underground

- b) the isotopes are short-lived

+ c) the isotopes are long-lived

32. According to Wikipedia, the first large machine tool was used to

- a) shape plates for ship hulls

- b) plane rails for railroads

+ c) bore cylinders for steam engines steam engines.

- d) drill coal mines

33. Suppose that you see a full moon, but no eclipse. You can be certain that a full moon will also occur exactly one Saros later.

+ a) true

- b) false

34. If you start moving towards a source of sound, the pitch becomes

- a) unchanged

- b) lower

+ c) higher

35. In terms of lives lost per unit of energy generated, evidence suggests that nuclear power has caused ______ fatalities per unit of energy generated than the other major sources of energy.

- a) less

- b) more

+ c) comparable

36. As the Sun, Moon, and planets seem to move around the Earth, they remain close to a circle, called the ecliptic, that can be drawn on paper or imagined in the sky. The Babylonians divided this circle into 12 unequal sections of approximately 30 degrees each, and labeled the sections after the zodiacal constellations.

- a) true

+ b) false

37. Your best friend's pet lizard is thirsty every 2 days, hungry every 3 days, and frisky every 5 days. If she is thirsty, hungry, and frisky today, whe will be thirsty, hungry, and frisky _____ days later

- a) 10

- b) 40

- c) 15

+ d) 30

38. Which of the following was NOT used as evidence in an effort to guess where the Antikythera device originated?

- a) Coins at the site seemed to originate from Pergamon, where an important library was situated.

- b) Vases found at the site suggest an origin near the trading port of Rhodes, where Hipparchus was believed to have worked.

+ c) The Library of Alexandria, where Ptolemy would later work, would have been a likely destination or origin for the ship.

- d) Some of the astronomical events associated with the device could have only have been seen from Corinth, a region associated with Archimedes.

39. The Colossus, used to defeat the German Enigma machine during World War II in 1944, was

- a) electromechanical

- b) mechanical

+ c) electric digital programmable

- d) Turing-complete

40. Mr. Smith starts from rest and accelerates to 2 m/s in 3 seconds. How far did he travel?

- a) 4.0 meters

- b) 5.0 meters

+ c) 3.0 meters

- d) 6.0 meters

- e) 7.0 meters