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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. 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?
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Swift.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Newton.
2. 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) Carnot.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Bernoulli.
3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Catenary.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Involute.
4. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Jean d'Alembert.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Locke.
(d) Boerhaave.
5. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) Capacitor fluid.
(b) Transmission fluid.
(c) Acid fluid.
(d) Subtle fluid.
Short Answer Questions
1. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
2. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
4. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
5. ________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity.
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