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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. 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) Poleni.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Descartes.
2. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.
(a) Statistics.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Arithmetic.
3. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 18th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 17th.
4. What category of science, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was "the science that teaches us the reasons and causes of all the effects that Nature produces," including both living and nonliving phenomena?
(a) Physics.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Biology.
5. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?
(a) Roberts.
(b) Fontenelle.
(c) Maupertuis.
(d) Marquis de l'Hopital.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
2. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
3. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.
4. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
5. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
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