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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. 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.
(a) American plumber.
(b) Polish priest.
(c) German psychologist.
(d) French electrician.

2. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Mechanics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Religion.

3. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) French Revolution.
(b) Scientific Revolution.
(c) American Revolution.
(d) Enlightenment Revolution.

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) Leibniz.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Carnot.
(d) Descartes.

5. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Limerick.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Pastoral poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.

2. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?

3. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

4. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

5. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

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