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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 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?
(a) Varignon.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Newton.

2. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?
(a) Roger Cortes.
(b) Henry Oldenburg.
(c) James Butler.
(d) Robert Boyle.

3. 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) Galileo Galilei.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) 'sGravesande.

4. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
(a) Desaguliers.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) Wolff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

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

4. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?

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.

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