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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Locke.
(c) Swift.
(d) Robert Boyle.

2. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Newton.
(d) Bernoulli.

3. ________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity.
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Hales.
(d) Boerhaave.

4. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

5. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Platoian.
(b) Newtonian.
(c) Aristotlian.
(d) Voltairian.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

2. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?

3. The concept of subtle fluids made its appearance around ________ when demonstration experiments in physics were rapidly gaining in popularity, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

4. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?

5. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

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