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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. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) Desagulier.
(c) Franklin.
(d) Newton.

2. 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) Newton.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Locke.
(d) Bacon.

3. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Calculus.
(b) Reason.
(c) Religion.
(d) Analysis.

4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Professors.
(b) Men of Letters.
(c) Men of Honor.
(d) Masters.

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"?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?

3. 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.

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

5. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?

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