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Physics Chp 1 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Scientific method | an orderly method of gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge |
fact | a close agreement by competent observers of a series of observations of the same phenomena |
hypothesis | An educated guess; a reasonsable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as a factual until tested over and over again by experiment. |
law | a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. Also know as a principle. |
principle | a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. Also known as a law. |
theory | A synthesis a large body of information that emcompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world. |