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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. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Religion.
(b) Physics.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Mechanics.

2. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) David Hume.
(b) Kant.
(c) Boyle.
(d) D'Alembert.

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) Mied mathematics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Natural theology.

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

5. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) John Cuthbertson.
(b) Abbe Nollet.
(c) Robert Symmer.
(d) William Gilbert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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.

4. According to Chapter 3, ________ was the most volatile and least substantial of all the elements; therefore, it was the chief agent of change, as witnessed by its role in combustion, fermentation, decomposition, and evaporation.

5. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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