Exploring the Cosmos - Degree Exam 2014 - Particles, Forces & the Big Bang
1. Olber’s paradox involves which of the following observations?
Some of the planets display retrograde motion.
Matter clumps into galaxies and large scale structures.
The sky is dark at night.
The rotation curves of galaxies become flat at large distances.
2. Hubble’s Law tells us that
the universe is expanding.
the planets move in elliptical orbits.
entropy is always increasing.
nothing can travel faster than light.
3. Inside the proton are
quarks held together by gluons.
electrons held together by gluons.
electrons held together by photons.
quarks held together by photons.
4. The mediating particles of the weak interaction include
the Y boson.
the Z boson.
the neutrino.
the graviton.
5. In 2012 the Large Hadron Collider discovered
the top quark.
supersymmetry.
the Higgs boson.
Gravitational Waves.
6. A WIMP is a
Weakly Interacting Mono-Pole.
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.
Weakly Interacting Massless Particle.
Weakly Interacting Majorana Particle.
7. The Bullet Cluster provides evidence for which phenomenon?
Dark Energy.
Hubble’s Law.
Massive neutrinos.
Dark Matter.
8. The Heat Death of the Universe would be a consequence of
quantum tunnelling.
the Sachs-Wolfe effect.
quintessence.
the second law of thermodynamics.
9. The Universe appears to contain much more matter than antimatter. This observation is known as
the Flatness Problem.
the Horizon Problem.
the Baryon Asymmetry Problem.
the Exotic Relic Problem.
10. Which Greek Astronomer ï¬rst reasoned that the Earth is a sphere from seeing the Earth’s shadow on the Moon at a lunar eclipse?
Eratosthenes.
Eudoxus.
Aristotle.
Pythagoras.
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