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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 the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.
(a) Germany.
(b) America.
(c) Holland.
(d) Italy.
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?
(a) Involute.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Cycloid.
3. 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) Cycloid.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.
4. 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?
(a) Newton.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Condorcet.
5. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Religion.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Reason.
(d) Calculus.
Short Answer Questions
1. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.
2. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
3. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
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 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
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