Physci24 Mid

Surigao del Sur State University
COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Tandag City, Surigao del Sur
College of Teacher Education
Midterm Examination
in
History and Philosophy of Science (PHYSCI 24)
Name:_________________________________________ Course &Year:__________

Instructor: IVY SANCHEZ DIAZ
I- Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
1. An intellectual and scientific movement where they used observation and logic to understand the world instead of
errors of the past.
a. age of enlightenment c. digital age
b. romanticism d. modern science development
2. It is centered on the dialogues and publications. It was also the time of religious innovation.
a. early enlightenment c. late enlightenment
b. high enlightenment d. mid enlightenment
3. It was an intellectual movement that originated in Western Europe as a countermovement to the late 18th century
enlightenment.
a. age of enlightenment c. digital age
4._____________ scientist of the Romantic period held that observing nature implied understanding the self and that
knowledge of nature should not be obtained by force.
a. romantic scientist c. European scientist
b. German scientist d. American scientist
5. He called nature “a history of the path to freedom” and encouraged a reunion of man’s spirit with nature.
a. Jean Baptiste Lamarck c. Johann Goethe
b. Friedrich Schelling d. Alexander Humboldt
6. _________placed emphasis on the human ability to see the color, the human ability to gain knowledge through
“flashes of insight” and not a mathematical equation.
7. A staunch advocate of empirical data collection and the necessity of the natural scientist in using experience and
quantification to understand nature.
8. Most important man of science in Britain who can be described as a Romantic.

a. Humphry Davy c. Johann Goethe
9. Scientist who published the Principia Mathematica, Law of Motion and Law of Gravitation.
a. Isaac Newton c. Copernicus
b. William Gilbert d. Johannes Kepler
10. Revived the heliocentric model of the solar system.

11. The Father of Modern Physics who validate physical theories.

a. Isaac Newton c. Galileo
12. Determine the sizes and distances of the sun and the moon.
b. Aristarchus of Samos d. Johannes Kepler
13. _______composed his periodic table.

a. Dmitri Mendeleev c. Copernicus
14. He is known for his planetary motion in the early 17th century.
a. Dmitri Mendeleev c. Copernicus
15. An English mathematician and computer pioneer who proposed Analytical engine.
a. Charles Babbage c. Copernicus
16. An English engineer and computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
a. Charles Babbage c. Tim Berners-Lee
b. Albert Einstien d. Johannes Kepler
17. Digital ink was invented in the late______.

a. 1960s c. 1980s
b. 1970s d. 1990s
18. Home computers and time sharing computers were introduced in the__________.
a. 1960s c. 1980s
b. 1970s d. 1990s
19. It is a multi-purpose electronic computer whose size, capabilities and price make it feasible for individual use.
a. compact disc c. personal computer
b. gramophone record d. compact cassette
20. It is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony.
21. _____are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal.
a. compact disc c. digital electronics

b. gramophone record d. analogue electronics
22. It is commonly known as a vinyl record or simply vinyl or record.

23. In what year does transistor invented?

a. 1945 c. 1960s
b. 1976 d. 1947
24. _____is the long distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages without physical exchange of an object
bearing the message.
b. telegraph d. compact cassette
25. During what year does digital format of optical compact disc gradually replaced analog formats.
a. 1960s c. 1980s
b. 1970s d. 1990s
26. The_______is the change from mechanical and analogue electronic technology to digital electronics.
a. age of enlightenment c. digital revolution
27. ________ electronics that handle digital signal.

a. digital c. personal computer
b. telegraph d. compact cassette
28. The following elements of futuristic scene, except one.

a. setting c. film techniques
b. problem d. symbolism
29. The following movies with futuristic scene.

I- Star wars III- I Robot
II- Back to the Future IV- Heaven Scene
a. I and II c. III and IV
b. I, II and III d. All of the above.
30. It defines as the action of fixing the boundary or limits of something or dividing line.
a. futuristic c. boundary
b. experimentation d. demarcation
31. A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.
a. futuristic c. boundary
b. pseudoscience d. naturalism
32. It is the theory that life or the universe cannot have arisen by chance and was designed and created by some
intelligent entity.
a. demarcation c. intelligent design
b. pseudoscience d. naturalism
33. The inventor of the telephone.
a. Alexander Graham Bell c. Tim Berners-Lee
b. Albert Einstien d. Johannes Kepler
34. The German inventor who discover the diesel engine.

b. Rodulf Diesel d. Johannes Kepler
35. One of the greatest scientists of the 20th century who discover the theory of relativity.
a. Albert Einstein c. Tim Berners-Lee
b. Rodulf Diesel d. Johannes Kepler
36. His inventions are motion picture, projector, phonograph and incandescent bulb.
b. Rodulf Diesel d. Thomas Alva Edison
II- Enumeration:
Give at least two beneficial and harmful impact of the development of science & technology in the society.
37.
38. Beneficial impact
39.
40. Harmful impact

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Surigao del Sur State University

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Name:_______________________________ Course &Year:

I- Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

8. Most important man of science in Britain who can be described as a Romantic.

10. Revived the heliocentric model of the solar system.

11. The Father of Modern Physics who validate physical theories.

13. _______composed his periodic table.

17. Digital ink was invented in the late______.

21. _____are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal.

a. compact disc c. digital electronics

22. It is commonly known as a vinyl record or simply vinyl or record.

23. In what year does transistor invented?

27. ________ electronics that handle digital signal.

28. The following elements of futuristic scene, except one.

29. The following movies with futuristic scene.

34. The German inventor who discover the diesel engine.

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