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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 names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 17th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 18th.
2. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of life.
(b) Century of light.
(c) Century of reason.
(d) Century of science.
3. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Carnot.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Leibniz.
4. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) God's demeanor.
(b) Man's desire.
(c) Man's passion.
(d) God's desire.
5. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Calculus.
(b) Religion.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Reason.
Short Answer Questions
1. ________, 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.
2. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
3. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
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.
5. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
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