Descartes Vs. Newton Review
- 1.1. René Descartes believed that the universe was a machine and compared it to a _______.
- A.
Toy
- B.
Computer
- C.
Camera
- D.
Clock
- 2.2. Descartes was a Catholic and the Church supported him because his vision of the universe was like the Church's. He believed the universe followed _____________________________.
- A.
Newton's laws of gravity.
- B.
A set of predictable rules.
- C.
The ten commandments.
- D.
The principles of motion.
- 3.3. Descartes dissected an ox's eye to prove it was a machine. He thought he was right because looking through the lens of the eye, images appear ________________________.
- A.
Upside down.
- B.
Reversed.
- C.
Inverted.
- D.
Sideways.
- 4.4. Descartes thought white light was pure and made of spinning particles. He thought color was a distortion when the particles _________________________________.
- A.
Bounced off objects.
- B.
Hit the eye.
- C.
Spun faster or slower.
- D.
Hit each other.
- 5.5. Isaac Newton thought Descartes theory about light and color was wrong. To prove it, he made a hole in a shutter and let the sunlight shine through the hole onto the opposite wall to form a _____________________.
- A.
Color wheel.
- B.
Rainbow
- C.
Lightening stike.
- D.
Laser.
- 6.6. Newton discovered that light was made of color which he called the visible _____________.
- A.
Color world.
- B.
Light.
- C.
Rainbow.
- D.
Spectrum
- 7.7. The colors of Newton's spectrum are, in order:
- A.
Red, yellow, blue, green, orange, violet, indigo
- B.
Red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black
- C.
Red, blue, yellow, purple, green, orange, brown
- D.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
- 8.8. The most important part of Newton's experiment with light was when he proved that each color in the spectrum was unique and prisms didn't change light by ______________________.
- A.
Using a cracked prism.
- B.
Putting a second prism in front of the spectrum.
- C.
Reflecting the spectrum back through the prism.
- D.
Putting a second prism in front of just the red light.
- 9.9. Newton's publication of his studies on light led to the ______________________________.
- A.
Modern scientific world view.
- B.
Destruction of the Catholic Church.
- C.
Nobel Prize for physics.
- D.
Invention of the light bulb.
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