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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. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
(a) Malebranche.
(b) Alexis-Claude Clairaut.
(c) Maupertuis.
(d) Descartes.

2. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
(a) Osmosis.
(b) Fluid.
(c) Ether.
(d) Witness.

3. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Earth.
(b) Air.
(c) Fire.
(d) Water.

4. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Robert Boyle.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Swift.
(d) Locke.

5. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.
(a) Natural fire.
(b) Water.
(c) Electrical fire.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?

2. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.

3. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

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