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What is science
Science is a body of knlwledge, the study of the natural world around us, and a method of gathering information
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What is science not very useful or helpful
Science is not helpful for questions about religion, emotion, and things that can't be measured.
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What are the 7 characteristics of science?
- S tructured way of thinking
- H uman activity
- O bservable
- E xpirimental
- R epeatable
- A ssumes the univierse can be ordered
- P ublic and Verifiable
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Three types of scientific research
Controlled expiriment, Systematic ovservation, and scientific model investigation
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Turn "Does smoking cause lung cancer" into a hypothesis
If you msoke then you will probably get lung cancer because the smoke will ruin your lungs
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Null hypothesis for smoking
If you smoke then you will not get lung cancer
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What is a variable
A variable is something that can be changed
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4 types of variables
- Manipulated Variable - Intentionally Changed
- Other Controlled- Other variables that you have controlled
- Responding Variable- The uncontrollable outcome of changing the manipulated variable
- Other uncnotrolled- Other variables that aren't controlled (BAD)
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9 phases of scientific method
- 1. Observer and make infreence
- 2. Make question
- 3. Make prediciton that can be tested
- 4. Make hypothesis.
- 5. Test hypothesis
- 6. REcord data and analyze
- 7. Analyze the expiriment make a conclusion
- 8. Repeat
- 9. Communicate results
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What is a control group and why is it useful
The contorl group is where the manipulated variable is not mainpulated. Userful for comparing with the expiriment to compare results and to ensure that your results were not caused by some other uncontrolled varilabe.
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What is technology and how is it related to science
Technology is the application of science to make something that people can use.
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What is an inference
A conclusion drawn from what you know
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What is Occam's Razor
The simpler of to competing theories is better
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What did Pthagorus do
FIrst to utilize scientific hypothesis
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What did Aristotle do
Divised methods to get reliable knowledge from obeservations
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What did Ibn Al-Haythem do
Developed the primitive scientific method
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What did Roger Bacon do
Described a repeating cycle of expirimentaiton
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What did Nicholaus Copernicus do
Created a systematic way of gathering data, challenged tradition with data
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What did Galileo do
Created and practiced the science of dynamics and expiriments
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Francis bacon
Described the method in his literature
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Descartes
Book about method, contributor
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Issac Newton
Essentially finished the development of method. Combined observation, expirimentation, and mathmatical theory much like we do today.
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