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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. 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?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Biology.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Physics.

2. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Robert Boyle.
(b) Swift.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Locke.

3. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
(a) Poleni.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Galileo.

4. 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.
(a) Euler.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Descartes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?

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

3. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?

4. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?

5. 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.

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