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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. 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.
(a) 1853.
(b) 1740.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1770.
2. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Pentagon curve.
(b) Centripetal curve.
(c) Polygon curve.
(d) Diagonal curve.
3. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Platoian.
(b) Aristotlian.
(c) Newtonian.
(d) Voltairian.
4. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Bernoulli.
(b) Carnot.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Descartes.
5. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
(a) Nuture.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Nature.
Short Answer Questions
1. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
2. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
3. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
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.
5. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
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