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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. 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) Condorcet.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Newton.

2. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
(a) Buddist.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Jewish.
(d) Christians.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Musschenbroek.
(c) Mariotte.
(d) Newton.

4. 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) Marquis de l'Hopital.
(d) Maupertuis.

5. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) Abbe Nollet.
(b) John Cuthbertson.
(c) William Gilbert.
(d) Robert Symmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

2. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?

3. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?

4. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

5. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.

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