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Gravitational Waves

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which among the following was the last classical test of GR to be first proved/detected before gravitational waves

a)

Perihelion precession of mercury

b)

gravitational redshift of light

c)

gravitational deflection of light by Sun

d)

Cosmological scale gravitational lensing

2.

Primordial gravitational waves detection would be a smoking gun signature of

a)

Intermediate mass black holes

b)

Expanding Universe

c)

Redshift of galaxies

d)

Cosmic inflation

3.

The man behind LIGO's basic work in principle, he was awarded the Noble prize in Physics in 2017

a)

Rainer Weiss

b)

Michael Mayor

c)

Brian P Schmidt

d)

George F. Smoot

4.

Einstein _________ the physical reality of gravitational waves

a)

predicted

b)

calculated

c)

rejected

5.

LISA stands for

a)

Light Interference Space Academy

b)

Light Incumbent Superposition Antenna

c)

Laser Interferometry Space Antenna

d)

Laser Interference and Superposition Association

6.

Intervening Gravitational waves affect the time it takes for signals to reach from source to telescopes. Using this principle we can detect GWs using

a)

Pulsar Timing Arrays

b)

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

c)

21 cm Hydrogen

d)

gamma ray bursts

7.

gamma ray bursts and r process outflows are believed to happen in

a)

inspiral phase of binaries

b)

merger phase of binaries

c)

post merger phase of binaries

d)

isolated white dwarfs

8.

In flat region of spacetime with a group of motionless test particles lying in a plane, as a gravitational wave passes through the particles along a line perpendicular to the plane of the particles

a)

Area enclosed by the test particles is conserved

b)

Two types of polarisations of the particle's movements is observed

c)

particles can never return back to their original state

d)

there is motion along the propagation

9.

Speed of gravitational waves=

a)

0.5 of light speed

b)

supersonic speeds

c)

sound speed

d)

Light speed

10.

The most recent ground based LIGO observatory has been comissioned in

a)

Australia

b)

India

c)

Singapore

d)

Russia