SCMH 1010 Study Guide Exam 1 Questions Answered Correctly.
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The first, most crucial thing is to observe nature with no manipulation - Answer Observation
The manipulation of some aspect of nature to observe the outcome - Answer expiriment
Repeatedly observing phenomena and developing a sense of how nature behaves - Answer Pattern recognition
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SCMH 1010 Study Guide Exam 1
Questions Answered Correctly.
The first, most crucial thing is to observe nature with no manipulation - Answer Observation
The manipulation of some aspect of nature to observe the outcome - Answer expiriment
Repeatedly observing phenomena and developing a sense of how nature behaves - Answer Pattern
recognition
A statement of something that happens in nature (a confirmed observation) - Answer Fact
A conjecture, based on past observations or theoretical considerations, about something that will
happen (an educated guess) - Answer Hypothesis
Sets of ideas that have met many experimental tests and are widely accepted (well sub-stained
descriptions of nature) - Answer Theory and Law
Ideas must be tested by making _________________ and observing behavior of a system - Answer
predictions
Testing may not prove or disprove an idea but rather define its range of _____________ - Answer
validity
(Branch of science) - the search for new laws describing fundamental aspects of nature - Answer
Physics
(Branch of science) - the study of atoms in combination - Answer Chemistry
(Branch of science) - the study of stars, planets, and other objects in space - Answer Astronomy
, (Branch of science) - the study of the origin, evolution, and the present state of earth - Answer Earth
sciences
(Branch of science) - the study of living systems - Answer Biology
(Law) - Planets move in elliptical orbits with sun at 1 focus - Answer Kepler's first law
(Law) - The line connecting planet/sun sweeps out equal areas in equal times. (planet moves slower
when further away and faster when closer to sun) - Answer Kepler's second law
(Law) - The square of period time (planet takes around sun) is proportional to cube of the semi major
axis (distance from center through focus) - Answer Kepler's third law
Italian physicist and philosopher who devised experiments to determine relationships between d, t, v,
and a - Answer Gelileo
The ____________ of an accelerating object starting at rest is proportional to the time it has been falling
- Answer velocity
The amount of change in velocity divided by the time it takes the change to occur. can involve changes in
speed, changes in direction, or both - Answer acceleration
When 90 degrees, the acceleration of a free falling object is __________. - Answer 9.8 m/s^2
Galileo found that distance depends on the square of _____________ ____________. - Answer travel
time
Anything that has both a direction and magnitude - Answer Vector
A physical quantity that is completely described by its magnitude - Answer Scaler
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