Exploring the Cosmos - Degree Exam 2014 - Particles, Forces & the Big Bang
1. Olber’s paradox involves which of the following observations?
The rotation curves of galaxies become flat at large distances.
The sky is dark at night.
Matter clumps into galaxies and large scale structures.
Some of the planets display retrograde motion.
2. Hubble’s Law tells us that
entropy is always increasing.
the universe is expanding.
the planets move in elliptical orbits.
nothing can travel faster than light.
3. Inside the proton are
quarks held together by gluons.
electrons held together by gluons.
quarks held together by photons.
electrons held together by photons.
4. The mediating particles of the weak interaction include
the neutrino.
the Z boson.
the graviton.
the Y boson.
5. In 2012 the Large Hadron Collider discovered
supersymmetry.
Gravitational Waves.
the Higgs boson.
the top quark.
6. A WIMP is a
Weakly Interacting Majorana Particle.
Weakly Interacting Massless Particle.
Weakly Interacting Mono-Pole.
Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.
7. The Bullet Cluster provides evidence for which phenomenon?
Dark Energy.
Dark Matter.
Hubble’s Law.
Massive neutrinos.
8. The Heat Death of the Universe would be a consequence of
the Sachs-Wolfe effect.
quintessence.
quantum tunnelling.
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 Exotic Relic Problem.
the Baryon Asymmetry Problem.
the Horizon 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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