View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Earth.
(d) Water.

2. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?
(a) Pierre-Louis-Moreau de Maupertuis.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Newton.
(d) Malebranche.

3. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
(a) Breteuil.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Newton.

4. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Mechanism.
(c) Academism.
(d) Deism.

5. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Black.
(b) Roebuck.
(c) Newton.
(d) Fordyce.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

3. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?

4. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

5. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 257 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample