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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 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.
(a) Francis Hauksbee.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Newton.
(d) Stephen Gray.

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) B3C.
(b) R6Z.
(c) D2X.
(d) A3E.

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

4. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Fordyce.
(b) Roebuck.
(c) Newton.
(d) Black.

5. 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) Electrical fire.
(b) Natural fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

2. What category of science, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was "the science that teaches us the reasons and causes of all the effects that Nature produces," including both living and nonliving phenomena?

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

4. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

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