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what is physics?
the study of matter and energy and how they relate
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what re the 2 type of physical science?
macroscopic and microscopic
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what is macroscopics?
physics
can see it w/ the naked eye
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what is microscopics?
chemistry
requires a microscope
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what are the other names for physics?
physical science, macroscopics
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energy and matter are---- ----?
mutaully exclusive
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if its physical, its ---- -- ---------
made of substance
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what is science? (view hint)
the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explination of phenomena
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what is matter?
anything that has mass and occupies space
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what is energy?
the ability to do work
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what are types of energy?
light, heat, electrical energy, sound, solar energy, kinetic energy
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what is the difference between solving a scientific problem and an exercise?
problems: involves finding an unknown without the use of an established procedure
exercises:involves using predetermined steps to solve for an unknown
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how do you solve a scientific problem?
1)define problem
2)do research
3)formulate a hypothesis
4)test hypothesis (experiment)
5)anaylze results
6)draw conclusion
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what is a hypothesis?
an educated guess
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what is ignorance?
to be uneducated in a certain field
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what is the method of solving scientific problem called?
the Scientific Method
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what is observation?
the process of gathering information
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what are the two types of observation?
quantitive
qualitive
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what if a qualitive observation?
an observation that doesn't involve numbers; characteristics
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what if a quantitive observation?
an observation that involves numbers
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what is a theory?
an explination based on many supported by experimental results
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what happens to a hypothesis once it is proven?
turns into a theory
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what is a scientific law?
a "rule of nature"
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when can a theory be turned into a Law?
once it is proven flawlessly
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what is an experiment?
an organized procedure for testing a hypothesis
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what does and experiment have?
a control, a constant, an independent variable, and a dependent variable
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what is a control?
the standard specimen that all other experiments are compared to
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what is a constantl?
a factor that does not change in the experiment
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what is an independent variable?
a factor that is adjusted by the scientist
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what is a dependent variable?
a factor that is controlled by the independent variable
the one result of an experiment
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what did scientist often rely on?
the general obeservations and on what previous scientist had done
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what were scietist ofter reluctant to do?
question authority
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where and when did scietist start to experiment to see if their ides were correct
400 years ago, Western Europe
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What was Galileo's full name?
Galileo Galilei
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where and when did Galileo go to school?
17 @ Pisa University
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What did Galileo originally study to be?
a doctor
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what had he identified and documented?
the mathmatical relationship in a universal event
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what was the unversal event he identified and documeted ?
the time it took for a lamp to swing back and forth and the chain on which it was suspended
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where did Galileo record his findings and what did he include w/ them?
in notebooks w/ sketches
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do his notebooks still exsist today?
yes
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he was a famous--- and a more famous---
inventor, astronomer
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what did he invent?
a military compass that could aim canninbals at the enemy
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he created his own----
telescope
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when did he discover the Galilean moons?
1609
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what are the Galilean moons
4 moons that orbit Jupiter
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he was convinced that the earth revolved around the ---- even though people thought the --- was the center of the solar system
sun, earth
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what did the leaders of the church do to Galileo?
put him on trial and heresy, threatened to torture him, and put him on house arrrest for the rest of his life
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because of house arrest, he couldn't--- -- ----- anymore
speak in public
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what was the space probe launched in his honor called
Galileo space probe
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when and by who was the Galileo space probe launched?
NASA in 1989
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what does NASA stand for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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what does the Galileo space probe do?
observes Jupiter and the Galilean moons and sends information back to earth
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what religion was Galileo?
Christian
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