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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. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
(a) Desaguliers.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Wolff.
(d) 'sGravesande.

2. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 17th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 15th.

3. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Mied mathematics.
(d) Natural theology.

4. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) D2X.
(b) R6Z.
(c) A3E.
(d) B3C.

5. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
(a) Galileo.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Poleni.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

2. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?

3. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?

4. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

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