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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. 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) Arithmetic.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Statistics.
(d) Geometry.
2. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) D' Alembert.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Kant.
3. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.
(b) Newton / Aristotle.
(c) Voltaire / d'Alembert.
(d) 'sGravesande / Descartes.
4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.
(a) German psychologist.
(b) French electrician.
(c) Polish priest.
(d) American plumber.
5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Black magic.
(b) Natural magic.
(c) Physics.
(d) Practical magic.
Short Answer Questions
1. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
2. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
3. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
4. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?
5. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
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