Einstein's Revolution: Crash Course History of Science #32

Before Einstein published his work, people thought that energy moved through ...

• ether

• space

• nothing

• everything

The failure of the Michelson–Morley experiment in 1887 implied that the speed of light was ...

• constant no matter what.

• slowing down.

• speeding up.

• dependent on your relative position.

The person who proposed the theory of radioactivity was _____ _____.

(a)  

What is the first name of the person who discovered that beta particles were actually electrons exiting the nuclei of atoms at high speeds?

(a)  

_____ _____ theorized that light might actually be a series of particles or quantum unit instead of a wave? (Give the first and last name.)

(a)  

What year did Albert Einstein earn his PhD and publish his first four papers?

(a)  

Einstein's paper on ________ proved that nothing can move faster than light.

• special relativity

• Brownian motion

• the photoelectric effect

• the equivalence of mass and energy

Mass and energy can be converted into one another.

• True

• False

Einstein showed that gravity is a distortion in the (a)   of space due to mass.

Werner Heisenberg invented (a)   mechanics.