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

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) Henry Oldenburg.
(b) Roger Cortes.
(c) James Butler.
(d) Robert Boyle.

3. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?
(a) Hermann.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Lagrange.

4. 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) Witness.
(c) Ether.
(d) Fluid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.

2. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?

4. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

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

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