COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

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Exercise 1: Answer the following questions by referring to the reading passage.

1. What does physics study in general?

2. What is an approach in modern physics related to?

3. Are there any relations between physics and other sciences? Give some illustrations.

4. What does statistical physics show?

5. When was physics seen as a separate science?

Exercise 2: Complete each of the following statements with words/ phrases from the reading passage

1. Physics …………….. the fundamental constituents of the universe

2. … a more sophisticated approach ……………..elements of the three areas...

3. It relates to the laws of …………….. and conservation.

4. Physics is closely related to the other natural ……………..

5. Chemistry deals with the …………….. of atoms to form molecules.

6. Even living systems are made up of …………….. particles.

7. The emphasis on the interaction between particles in modern physics, known as the …………….. approach.

8. This macroscopic approach is …………….. to the application of physics.

9. These thermodynamic concepts can only be applied ……………..to a very large system of such particles.

10. A bridge exists, ……………..,between the microscopic and macroscopic approach

Exercise 3: Decide whether each of the following statements is true (T), false (F) or there is no information to clarify (N).

1. ……………..Modern physics also deals with the fundamental constituents of the universe.

2. ……………..There are relations between physics and other natural sciences.

3. ……………..The microscopic approach is more important than the macroscopic one.

4. ……………..The macroscopic is unnecessary to the application of physics to much

of modern technology.

5. ……………..Thermodynamics deals with the measurement of properties of a system

as an individual.

6. ……………..Statistical mechanics shows the way in which pressure and temperature

are related to each other.

7. ……………..Before the 19th century, people had had no ideas of what physics was

like.

8. ……………..Many people studied physics because it was interesting.

9. ……………..Today, physics has become the most important science.

10. ……………..Nuclear physics was originally for peaceful purposes.