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

2. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) God's desire.
(b) Man's desire.
(c) Man's passion.
(d) God's demeanor.

3. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of life.
(b) Century of science.
(c) Century of reason.
(d) Century of light.

4. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Newton.

5. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) Leibniz.
(b) D'Alembert.
(c) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
(d) Cartesians.

Short Answer Questions

1. The concept of subtle fluids made its appearance around ________ when demonstration experiments in physics were rapidly gaining in popularity, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

2. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

4. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.

5. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?

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