Read the following statements and select T if you think it is true, F for false. After you complete the module, revisit your answers and correct your mistakes.

 

​ True False   1. Modern Physics is more than 100 years old.

​ True False   2. Ernest Rutherford showed that all the negative charges in an atom were concentrated in a small region called the nucleus.

​ True False   3. A star that looks blue is hotter than one that looks red.

​ True False    4. A quanta is a type of Korean hatchback.

​ True False   5. Einstein proved that light was a wave with his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

​ True False   6. Niels Bohr was a physicist and an expert tennis player.

​ True False   7. Fluorescent lights contain mercury gas.

​ True False   8. Each element emits a unique set of colors of light when excited.

​ True False   9. If a flashlight is traveling toward you at half the speed of light, you will measure the light coming toward you to be traveling at 1.5 times the speed of light.

​ True False   10. Two events happening at the same time can be observed to happen at different times from another observer.

​ True False   11. Gravity can bend the path of a light beam.

​ True False   12. Gravity is the strongest of the four fundamental forces.