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physics v
ch. 1 vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scientific Method | An orderly method for gaining, organizing, and appling knowledege |
| Fact | a close agreement by competant observers of the same phenomena |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess, a possible solution that is not fully factual until tested by expiriment |
| Law | A gerneal hypothesis about the relationship of natural quantities that has not been contradicted. |
| Theory | A synthesis of a large body of matireal that encompasses a well testsed hypothesis about the natural world. explains why something happens. |
| Observation | Obtaining information byt the use of the senses |
| Inference | Conclusion based on obervations. |
| Technology | A method of solving practical problems |