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Rajasthan Board (RBSE) - STD 9 - English (Rajasthan - English Medium). 74 questions in this chapter.

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Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote a public missive to the United Nations. In it he proposed the formation of a world government. Unlike the letter to Roosevelt, this one made no impact. But over the next decade, Einstein got ever more involved in politics — agitating for an end to the arms buildup and using his popularity to campaign for peace and democracy.
When Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76, he was celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius.
(i) How did Einstein feel about the destruction caused by the atomic bomb?
(ii) To whom did Einstein write a public letter after the bombing?
(iii) What did Einstein propose in his letter to the United Nations?
(iv) Did Einstein’s letter to the United Nations have an impact?
(v) What political activities did Einstein involve himself in after the letter?
(vi) For what causes did Einstein campaign?
(vii) When did Einstein die and at what age?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) impact$\quad$(b) anonymous 
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Q 2Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Einstein emigrated to the United States. Five years later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in an uproar. Many of them had fled from Fascism, just as Einstein had, and now they were afraid the Nazis could build and use an atomic bomb.
At the urging of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on 2 August 1939, in which he warned: “A single bomb of this type . . . exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.” His words did not fail to have an effect. The Americans developed the atomic bomb in a secret project of their own, and dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
(i) When did Einstein emigrate to the United States?
(ii) What discovery caused concern among American physicists in 1938?
(iii) Why were many physicists afraid after the discovery of nuclear fission?
(iv) To whom did Einstein write a warning letter in 1939?
(v) What did Einstein warn about in his letter?
(vi) What was the outcome of Einstein’s warning?
(vii) On which Japanese cities was the atomic bomb dropped?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) peace$\quad$(b) public
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Q 3Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
The pair finally married in January 1903, and had two sons. But a few years later, the marriage faltered. Mileva, meanwhile, was losing her intellectual ambition and becoming an unhappy housewife. After years of constant fighting, the couple finally divorced in 1919. Einstein married his cousin Elsa the same year.
Einstein’s new personal chapter coincided with his rise to world fame. In 1915, he had published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation of gravity. An eclipse of the sun in 1919 brought proof that it was accurate. Einstein had correctly calculated in advance the extent to which the light from fixed stars would be deflected through the sun’s gravitational field. The newspapers proclaimed his work as “a scientific revolution.”
Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He was showered with honours and invitations from all over the world, and lauded by the press.
(i) When did Einstein marry Mileva and how many children did they have?
(ii) What happened to Einstein and Mileva’s marriage after a few years?
(iii) How was Mileva described during the later years of their marriage?
(iv) When did Einstein and Mileva divorce?
(v) Who did Einstein marry after divorcing Mileva?
(vi) What major theory did Einstein publish in 1915?
(vii) How was Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity proven correct?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) constant$\quad$(b) failure
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Q 4Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
One of the famous papers of 1905 was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, according to which time and distance are not absolute. Indeed, two perfectly accurate clocks will not continue to show the same time if they come together again after a journey if one of them has been moving very fast relative to the other. From this followed the world’s most famous formula which describes the relationship between mass and energy:
E = mc2
While Einstein was solving the most difficult problems in physics, his private life was unravelling. Albert had wanted to marry Mileva right after finishing his studies, but his mother was against it. She thought Mileva, who was three years older than her son, was too old for him. She was also bothered by Mileva’s intelligence. “She is a book like you,” his mother said. Einstein put the wedding off.
(i) What was one of Einstein’s famous papers in 1905?
(ii) According to the Special Theory of Relativity, what are not absolute?
(iii) What happens to two accurate clocks if one travels very fast?
(iv) What is the famous formula given by Einstein?
(v) What was happening in Einstein’s personal life while he worked on physics?
(vi) Whom did Einstein want to marry after finishing his studies?
(vii) Why was Einstein’s mother against the marriage?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) relative$\quad$(b) continued 
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Q 5Prose Para [8M]8 Marks
He also felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Maric, whom he found to be a “clever creature.” This young Serb had come to Switzerland because the University in Zurich was one of the few in Europe where women could get degrees. Einstein saw in her an ally against the “philistines”— those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds.
The couple fell in love. Letters survive in which they put their affection into words, mixing science with tenderness. Wrote Einstein: “How happy and proud I shall be when we both have brought our work on relativity to a victorious conclusion.”
In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a university graduate and unemployed. He worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern.
While he was supposed to be assessing other people’s inventions, Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret. He is said to have jokingly called his desk drawer at work the “bureau of theoretical physics.”
(i) Who was Mileva Maric?
(ii) Why did Mileva come to Switzerland?
(iii) What did Einstein find in Mileva Maric?
(iv) What did Einstein and Mileva express in their letters?
(v) What did Einstein write about their work on relativity?
(vi) What job did Einstein finally secure in 1902?
(vii) What did Einstein call his desk drawer at the patent office?
(viii) Find the opposite words from the passage –
(a) employed$\quad$(b) openly
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Q 25MCQ [1M]1 Mark
What did the school headmaster say about Einstein?
  • A
    he would be a genius
  • B
    he is great
  • ✓
    he can’t be a success at anything
  • D
    none

Answer: C.

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