Which of the following statements is true?
a. A kilogram is 100 grams.
b. A centimeter is 100 meters.
c. A terabyte is one billion bytes.
d. A megaton is one million tons.
e. A micrometer is 10-6 millimeter.
[Ques. 2] Which list of metric prefixes is in order from smallest to greatest?
a. femto, centi, nano, mega, kilo
b. femto, nano, mega, centi, tera
c. mega, mega, mega, mega, mega
d. femto, nano, centi, mega, tera
e. femto, kilo, centi, mega, tera
[Ques. 3] Which one is NOT a major convenience of the metric system?
a. Everyone uses it.
b. It is internationally accepted.
c. It uses multiples of ten for everything, so conversions are easy.
d. It uses standard prefixes for larger and smaller amounts than the standard unit.
e. It is the accepted system of the scientific community.
[Ques. 4] What is the major problem with the U.S. customary system?
a. It is out of date.
b. Understanding the units does not require knowing English.
c. It has many different unfamiliar units and conversions are difficult.
d. It avoids cumbersome conversions of units.
e. It does not allow conversion to metric units.
[Ques. 5] Which list includes only units of the U.S. customary system?
a. kilograms, micrometers, milliseconds
b. pounds, kilometers, nanoseconds
c. grams, feet, minutes
d. pounds, centimeters, seconds
e. ounces, inches, seconds
[Ques. 6] Which list includes only units of the metric system?
a. kilograms, micrometers, milliseconds
b. pounds, kilometers, nanoseconds
c. grams, feet, minutes
d. kilograms, yards, seconds
e. ounces, inches, seconds
[Ques. 7] Why Bode's law was never considered a law of physics?
a. Because it is not testable.
b. Because it is not consistent.
c. Because it turned out not to be true.
d. Because it had no scientific basis.
e. Because it wasn't invented by Bode.
[Ques. 8] Einstein described science as beginning with:
a. an intuitive leap that creates an axiom, defining a set of consequences for the axiom, and testing those consequences against the material world.
b. an intuitive leap that creates an axiom, and testing the axiom against the material world.
c. an intuitive leap that creates an axiom, and defining a set of consequences for that axiom.
d. accepting each axiom as true and not testing it whenever it comes from an authoritative source.
e. defining a set of consequences for an axiom, and testing those consequences against the material world.
[Ques. 9] Physics is NOT:
a. the study of the material world.
b. the search for patterns in the behavior of material objects.
c. the search for rules that describe the behavior of objects in the Universe.
d. a discipline that covers the entire span of space and time.
e. a fixed and unchanging body of knowledge.
[Ques. 10] Which of the following techniques is not useful for determining the age of the universe?
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