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A quiz to introduce Frontiers of Science class to special relativity.
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1
What was the medium that light was thought to propagate through?
water
space
the air
the ether
2
How did the OPERA scientists account for the inaccurate results of the original experiment?
still unsure why their original results were so skewed
error in the machinery sending the streams of neutrinos
human error related to the experimenters' actions
faulty element of the experiment's fiber-optic timing system
3
Was Einstein the GOAT?
YES
NO
4
A symmetry principle says that a phenomenon should look the same from only
one
point of view.
FALSE
TRUE
5
What is Einstein's Second Postulate?
speed of light is invariant in all inertial frames of ref.
laws of physics are the same in all inertial frames of ref.
6
The Frontiers article provides support to the idea that neutrinos
can
travel faster than light.
TRUE
FALSE
7
How far did the stream of neutrinos travel from the lab. in Geneva to the lab. in Italy?
535 miles
483 miles
565 miles
454 miles
8
What is the relativity factor?
a scalar factor by which time dilates or length contracts
a vector by which time remains unchanged
a vector by which time dilates or length contracts
a scalar factor by which time remains unchanged
9
With his two postulates, Einstein concluded that the idea of the ether
does not
exist.
TRUE
FALSE
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What was Einstein's First Postulate?
laws of physics are invariant in all inertial ref. frames
speed of light is the same in all inertial frames of ref.
