Einstein's Big Idea

Where did Michael Faraday first learn about electricity?

• His job in the coal mines.
• Science for the public. 
• His book-binding job.

Michael Faraday got his job working for Humphrey Davies by doing what:

• Applying for it and getting recommended.
• Transcribing his lectures and binding them.
• Working at the hospital that treated Davies.
• Working as a janitor in the Royal Institute. 

Lavoisier was suspected of treason during the French Revolution.

• True
• False

What is the other postulate of Special Relativity that Einstein determined?

• The speed of light is always changing regardless of the frame of reference.

• Gravitational Wells are deformations in space-time.

• Light will produce electrical currents through the photo-electric effect.

• The speed of light in a vacuum is the same in all inertial frames of reference.

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Who was the creator of a special theory of relativity? It showed calculations of time and motion.

• Albert Einstein
• Hitler
• Nazis

Compared to clocks in a stationary reference frame moving clocks run 

• faster
• slower
• at the same rate

As an object approaches the speed of light, time for that object slows down, and it ages slowly.

• True
• False

Which famous inventor worked at a patent office?

• a. Nikola Tesla.
• b. Thomas Edison.
• c. Albert Einstein.

Who invented the first electric motor?

•  Michael Faraday
• Ethan McCowan
• Tesla
• Einstein

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Who mathematically proved that energy and matter can be converted into each other?

• Sigmund Freud
• Albert Einstein
• Hitler
• Axis Powers