1. Which of the following is an inertial reference frame? a) Car in constant speed in a straight road b) Going round a curve  c) Free falling

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1. Which of the following is an inertial reference frame?

a) Car in constant speed in a straight road

b) Going round a curve 

c) Free falling

2. Which of the following is not true about the Michelson-Morey experiment?

a) The predicted discrepancies due to the existence of the luminiferous aether are not detected to a reasonable precision. 

b) The experiment was not successfully replicated. 

c) The experiment required months of observation to account for Earth's motion through the aether. 

3. A number used to quantized how relativistic the speed of an object is

a) alpha factor

b) beta factor

c) gamma factor

d) delta factor

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