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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. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Musschenbroek.
(c) Locke.
(d) 'sGravesande.

2. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.
(a) Air.
(b) Natural fire.
(c) Electrical fire.
(d) Water.

3. 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.
(a) Volta.
(b) Luigi Galvani.
(c) John Robison.
(d) Charles Augustin Coulomb.

4. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Isaac Barrow.
(b) Condillac.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Euclid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?

2. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.

3. 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?

4. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?

5. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?

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