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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 conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Newtonian.
(b) Platoian.
(c) Voltairian.
(d) Aristotlian.

2. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Kant.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Boyle.

3. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?
(a) Roberts.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Marquis de l'Hopital.

4. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) D' Alembert.
(b) Kant.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) John Locke.

5. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Locke.
(b) Newton.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Bacon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

2. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.

3. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

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

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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