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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. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of light.
(b) Century of reason.
(c) Century of life.
(d) Century of science.
2. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Diagonal curve.
(b) Centripetal curve.
(c) Polygon curve.
(d) Pentagon curve.
3. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Newton.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Locke.
4. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The car.
(b) The soul.
(c) The mind.
(d) The body.
5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Practical magic.
(b) Black magic.
(c) Physics.
(d) Natural magic.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
2. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
3. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
4. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
5. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.
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