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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. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.
(a) Air.
(b) Water.
(c) Natural fire.
(d) Electrical fire.
2. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Involute.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Catenary.
3. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
(a) Rational mechanics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Synthesis.
(d) Analysis.
4. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) Kant.
(b) D'Alembert.
(c) Boyle.
(d) David Hume.
5. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
(a) Stephen Gray.
(b) Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) The Jesuits.
Short Answer Questions
1. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
2. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
3. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
5. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
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