Relatively Einstein

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1. At the age of thirteen, Einstein abandoned his religious fervor after studying the ideas of which 18th century philosopher suggested God might not exist? He is best known for metaphysics and ethics. Ralph Emerson Immanuel Kant Friedrich Nietzsche Socrates

2. Einstein could not grasp which of these elementary school subjects, leading him into a mini depression? Geometry Science Greek Mathematics

3. Polytechnic classmate and lifelong friend Marcel Grossman, used his father's influence to get Einstein a job in which country's patent office? Germany Italy Austria Switzerland

4. In 1905, the final jigsaw pieces of the special theory of relativity came to Einstein where? While reading David Hume Lunchbreak at the patent office In his sleep While hiking in the Alps

5. 1905 was a very busy year for Einstein. 'Relativity' was his fourth paper. The fifth that year was on the photoelectric effect. By applying this great scientists' quantum theory of light, Einstein helped to establish quantum mechanics. Who was this great German scientist and idol to Einstein? Philip Lenard Max Planck Marie Curie Max von Laue

6. Einstein summed up the special theory of relativity in a magazine review a few years later with the now legendary equation E=mc2. How does this translate? Energy = atomic mass squared Energy = mass multiplied by velocity squared Energy = mass multiplied by time squared Energy = mass multiplied by the speed of light squared

7. What did Einstein win a Nobel Prize for in 1922, 17 years after relativity was first published? Unified Field Theory of Relativity Special Theory of Relativity Services to Theoretical Physics General Theory of Relativity

8. Einstein first visited the United States of America in April, 1921. What was the purpose for the visit? To leave Germany due to Nazi torment To support the World Zionist Organisation To lecture on the University circuit To witness an experiment by Robert Millikan on redshifts

9. What did Edgar Hoover suspect so strongly, that he committed thousands of FBI man-hours in unsuccessfully trying to convict Einstein? Einstein was a communist Einstein had conspired against the US government Einstein was smuggling fission secrets to the Soviet Einstein was a fraud

10. One of the reasons it took 30 years for the majority of scientists to support relativity was that it dispelled the mythical existence of the ether. Ether was described as an infinite, jelly like substance, which was the medium for the propagation of electromagnetic waves. True False