Introduction to Physics Quiz

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What is the main goal of physics?

  • To understand how the universe behaves (correct)
  • To explore the boundaries of other academic disciplines
  • To study matter and its fundamental constituents
  • To enable new technologies

Which scientist specializes in the field of physics?

  • Biologist
  • Chemist
  • Physicist (correct)
  • Astronomer

During which century did the natural sciences emerge as unique research endeavors?

  • 18th century
  • 17th century (correct)
  • 16th century
  • 15th century

Which academic discipline is one of the oldest, perhaps the oldest?

<p>Physics (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What do advances in physics often enable?

<p>New technologies (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What early civilizations had a predictive knowledge and basic awareness of the motions of the Sun, Moon, and stars?

<p>Sumerians (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

From where can the origins of Western astronomy be found, according to Asger Aaboe?

<p>Mesopotamia (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

During which period did natural philosophy have its origins in Greece?

<p>Archaic period (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who proposed the idea of atomism, which was found to be correct approximately 2000 years after it was proposed?

<p>Leucippus and Democritus (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In which century did the Western Roman Empire fall, resulting in a decline in intellectual pursuits in the western part of Europe?

<p>Fifth century (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which physicist developed a theory of relativity that correctly predicted the action of forces on objects with increasing momenta near the speed of light?

<p>Einstein (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the philosophers in antiquity retain fundamental errors in understanding about force due to?

<p>Inadequate view of the nature of natural motion (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did the development of modern insights into quantum mechanics and technology lead to?

<p>Devising a Standard Model to describe forces between particles smaller than atoms (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the fundamental error that Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton corrected about motion and force?

<p>Motion requires a force to maintain it, even at a constant velocity (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did high-energy particle physics observations in the 1970s and 1980s confirm about the weak and electromagnetic forces?

<p>They are expressions of a more fundamental electroweak interaction (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the SI unit of force?

<p>Newton (N) (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of force often produces changes in the rotational speed of an object?

<p>Torque (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of quantity is force?

<p>Vector (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In equilibrium, what do the internal mechanical stresses in an extended body cause?

<p>No acceleration of the body (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which concept makes the everyday notion of pushing or pulling mathematically precise?

<p>Force (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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