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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 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Isoperimeters.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.

2. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 8.

3. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
(a) Osmosis.
(b) Witness.
(c) Ether.
(d) Fluid.

4. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.
(a) Plato.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Newton.
(d) Aristotle.

5. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Kant.
(b) L'Hopital.
(c) Pierre Bayle.
(d) Varignon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.

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

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

4. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

5. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

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