Chapter 1 Quiz Physics

no second chance

when a scientist is dishonest and reports false information in the scientific community

law

a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over again and has not been contradicted.

fact

a phenomenon about which competent observers who have made a series of observations are in agreement.

hypothesis

an educated guess, in science

pseudoscience

fake science that pretends to be real science.

early greeks

had the knowledge on the size of the earth, size of the moon, the earth-moon distance.

wrong

if it is a valid hypothesis , there must be a test for proving it

physics

out of physics, chemistry, biology, the most basic.

scientific method

principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of the hypothesis.

impossibility

scientific idea that is so well known that it cannot be questioned.

theory

the synthesis of a large collection of information that contains a well tested and verified hypothesis about certain aspects of the world is known as.

speculation

there are regions beneath the Earth's crust that will always be beyond the reach of scientific investigation to; believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds.