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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 narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Water / air.
(b) Electricity / heat.
(c) Heat / air.
(d) Electricity / water.

2. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
(a) Psychology.
(b) Synthesis.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Rational mechanics.

3. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Polygon curve.
(b) Centripetal curve.
(c) Diagonal curve.
(d) Pentagon curve.

4. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Roebuck.
(b) Fordyce.
(c) Black.
(d) Newton.

5. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.
(a) Newton.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

2. According to Chapter 3, ________ was the most volatile and least substantial of all the elements; therefore, it was the chief agent of change, as witnessed by its role in combustion, fermentation, decomposition, and evaporation.

3. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?

4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

5. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

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