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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 term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Deism.
(d) Academism.

2. 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) Descartes.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Euler.

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) Descartes.
(b) Poleni.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Galileo.

4. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?
(a) Cycloid.
(b) Involute.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Isoperimeters.

5. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) B3C.
(b) R6Z.
(c) D2X.
(d) A3E.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

2. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

3. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

4. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?

5. 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"?

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